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Ringfort - cashel

Lislarheenmore, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Lislarheenmore, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Lislarheenmore
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated (1916)
Coordinates
53.07734, -9.23622
SMR number
CL005-067----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On a narrow N-S terrace in the E side of the Caher valley with rising ground immediately to E and a steep fall to W, within a multiperiod field system (CL005-014001-). Indicated on the 1840 and 1916 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as an ‘enclosure’ in the RMP (1996).

A large poorly preserved oval cashel (int. dims. 42m N-S; 38m E-W) defined by a grassed-over stone spread (Wth 2.3-3.5m; H 0.2-0.5m) with surviving outer facing-stones and an original entrance gap (Wth 1m) at NNE. The entrance is flanked on its SE side by a large flag stone (L 1.2m; H 0.6m; T 0.18m) laid transversely across the wall line and to the NW by four horizontally coursed flags. The foundations of a large rectangular building (CL005-067002-) lie in the centre and to the E of this a short right-angled length of grassed over stone spread may be the remains of a second internal building. A modern wall runs along on top of the outer facing and a second entrance gap (Wth 0.6m) at S appears to be a modern. An animal pen abuts the later wall running on the line of the cashel at N. Another enclosure (CL005-255----) is located c. 30m to the SSE.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin

Date of upload: 28 September 2022

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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