Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cahermacun, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahermacun
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.07986, -9.20448
- SMR number
- CL005-075----
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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 with views from SSE to WNW, within a multiperiod field system( CL005-115001-). Hachured on the 1842 and 1916 eds of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Earthwork’ in the RMP (1996).
A moderately well to poorly preserved roughly circular cashel (diam. 19m) defined from SSE to WSW by a double wall (ext. H 0.7-1m; int. H 0.45m; T c. 2.5m) built of large stones set on their ends, from WNW to NNE by a bank of stone and earth (W 3.6m; H 0.7m) and from NNE to SE by slight foundations (0.2-0.4m wide). A later wall is built on the outer face from NNE to SE and a boundary wall runs N-S through the E half. Another cashel (CL005-074----) lies c. 100m to the NNW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 5 December 2022
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.