Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Cahermacun, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahermacun
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.08073, -9.20515
- SMR number
- CL005-074----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a high prominent location within a multiperiod field system (CL005-115001-), with good views from NE to E but with higher peat-covered ground to the W. Hachured on the 1842 and 1916 eds of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Earthwork’ in the RMP (1996). A roughly circular cashel (18m N-S; 16m E-W) defined by a grassed-over stone bank (Wth 1.2-2.5m; max. int. H 0.5m; max. ext. H 0.8m at E). There is an earthen ledge (Wth 1m; H 0.6m) on the outside of the bank at E. A later wall runs on top of the bank from SW to N. Another cashel (CL005-075----) lies c. 100m SSE.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 5 December 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.