Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Aillwee, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aillwee
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.08899, -9.11446
- SMR number
- CL005-104003-
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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 plateau under rough pasture, overlooking a deep ravine to the W, with views from SE to NE, but elsewhere restricted by slightly higher ground. An oval bivallate enclosure (60m SW-NE; 43.8m SE-NW) defined by widely spaced (c. 17m apart) grass-covered stone banks. The inner bank (H 0.8-1.3m; Wth 2m) encloses an oval area (23m N-S; 19m E-W) and stretches of outer wall-facing survive from N to S. A gap (Wth 1.4m) at S defined on one side by an orthostat (H 0.6m; L 2m) marks the site of the probable entrance. The outer bank (Wth c. 2.7m) is traceable on OSi Aerial Premium (2013-2018) from NW to NE and from S to SW. A mound wall radiates off this at NE. A modern fieldwall crosses the site from E to W, following the line of the inner bank at N and forming a small enclosure between the banks at S. A pen or shed is built into the inner bank at NE.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 22 February 2023
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.