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Ringfort - cashel

Lislarheenbeg, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Lislarheenbeg, 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
Lislarheenbeg
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Cahernatinna
Latest-edition OS map
Cahernatinna (1916)
Coordinates
53.07034, -9.23137
SMR number
CL005-068----

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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, level terrace of partially improved pasture at E foot of a low rise, in a large multiperiod field system (CL005-014001-). Hachured as a circular enclosure and named ‘Cahernatinna’ on the 1842 OS 6-inch map and indicated as a rectangular enclosure on the 1916 ed. O’Donovan (Comber 1997, 73) recorded its name as ‘Caher-na-Teinné’ which he translated as the fort of the fire and described it as a caher ‘in a state of great delapidation’. Westropp (1901, 15) did not consider it an antiquity and puzzled over how it got its name. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996).

A subrectangular enclosure (30m E-W; 20m N-S) defined by a modern stone wall (Wth 0.5-0.7m; H 1.2-1.4m). Horizontal blocks at the base of the wall at NE and midway along the N and E sides may be the remnants of a cashel wall.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin

Date of upload: 11 October 2022

References

Comber, M. (ed.) 1997 The antiquities of County Clare: John O’Donovan and Eugene Curry: Ordnance Survey Letters 1839. Clasp Press. Ennis.

Westropp, T.J 1901 Prehistoric remains in north-western Clare, part I. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 31, 1-17.

Nearby in the register

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

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