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Ringfort - cashel

Cragreagh, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Cragreagh, 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
Cragreagh
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.05985, -9.24956
SMR number
CL005-107----

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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

At the leading E edge of a wide level terrace of pastureland, with a low but vertical fall under the site to the E. Listed as an ‘Enclosure (possible)’ in the RMP (1996). Indicated on Robinson’s (1997) map. A poorly preserved rectangular cashel (27m S-N; 24 E-W) defined by a grass covered stone spread (Wth 2.65-3.4m) with external facing (H 0.4-1.7m) intermittently all around except at W and internal facing (H 0.4m) only at W. There is a rectangular building in the SE corner (CL005-107002-), with a partially enclosed pond on its N side and a later wall is built on the outer edge of the cashel at E.

The following images have been uploaded:
CL005-106----_01.jpg Overall view from S
CL005-106----_02.jpg Outer wall facing at S

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin

Date of upload: 21 February 2023

References

Robinson, T. 1977 (revised 1999) The Burren: a two-inch map of the uplands of north-west Clare. Map scale 1:31680. Roundstone: Folding Landscapes.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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