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
- Carrickalahan
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.06897, -9.19861
- SMR number
- CL005-082----
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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 the W slope of a ridge with commanding views to S and W and within a multiperiod field system (CL005-115001-). A subrectangular cashel (30m N-S; 23m E-W) defined by a stone wall NW-SE with a pronounced corner at NW and from SE to NW by a bank of earth and stone (Wth 2m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.7m). Outer wall facing (H 0.6-0.8m) is evident along the N and E and there is some inner facing at E (H 0.05-0.1m; wall Wth 2.5m). An internal wall on an earlier bank cuts off the NW corner which has one large corner stone in situ. A stone is indicated and named ‘Carricklahan’ on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map in this area. Two small, raised areas were noted in the interior of the cashel at W and at the centre. Another cashel (CL005-081----) lies c. 100m to the SSW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 14 December 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.