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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
53.07206, -9.20070
SMR number
CL005-079----

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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

In a slight hollow on elevated rough pasture, in a multiperiod field system (CL005-115001-). Indicated on the 1916 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996).
A moderately well preserved rectangular cashel (c. 27m N-S; 26m E-W) defined by an internally and externally faced wall (Wth 2.4m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.1m), best preserved at E. A faced and splayed entrance (int. Wth 2m; ext. Wth 2m) is in the centre of the E wall and a thickening in the W end of the S wall appears to have been to accommodate a rectangular hut site (CL005-079001-). A second semicircular hut site (CL005-079002-) abuts the centre of the S wall. An upright pillar stands in the entrance. Another cashel lies c. 90m to the NNW (CL005-078----).

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin

Date of upload: 7 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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