Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Gragan West, County Clare, Ireland
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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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
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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.