Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Boloona, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boloona
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.07373, -9.11163
- SMR number
- CL005-106----
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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 high elevated pasture, within a mulitperiod field system (CL005-104001-). Listed as a ‘Rectangular enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). Indicated on the 1916 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A poorly surviving and largely rebuilt, roughly rectangular, cashel (34m N-S; 33m E-W) defined by an externally faced wall (Wth 0.4-0.6m; H 0.2-6m). A hut site (CL005-106001-) with a lintelled roof is built onto the exterior near the W end of the N wall. A later wall is built on most of the cashel perimeter. Field walls, some of which may be of antiquity, radiate off from each corner.
This is no. 7 of Bowmer’s (2019) list of 66 rectilinear cashels in the Burren.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 21 February 2023
References
Bowmer, T. 2019 Rectilinear drystone cashel and enclosure settlements in the Burren, Co. Clare. The Journal of Irish Archaeology 28, 59–84.
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.