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Ringfort - cashel

Gragan West, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Gragan West, 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
Gragan West
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated (1916)
Coordinates
53.07738, -9.20369
SMR number
CL005-076002-

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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 high prominent location with views from NE to NW, within a multiperiod field system (CL005-115001-). Indicated on the 1916 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as 'Earthwork' in the RMP (1996). A poorly preserved roughly circular cashel (diam. 20-21m) defined by a stone spread (Wth 1.4-1.7m) with outer wall-facing at SW (max. H 0.4) and at NW (max. H0.6m), and no clear entrance. There are two small huts (CL005-076003- and CL005-076004-) (diams. 2-2.5m) in the SW sector divided by a low bank which extends NE across the centre. A later wall runs on the outer edge from NNW-ESE and a pen abuts its interior at N. Another cashel (CL005-076001-) lies c. 30m to the SW.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin

Date of upload: 5 December 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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