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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.06511, -9.19634
- SMR number
- CL005-114002-
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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 an elevated ridge of rough pasture in a multiperiod field system (CL005-115001-) with views from NE to NW. A poorly preserved, roughly circular cashel (int. dims. 21m E-W; 19.5m N-S) defined by a low internally and externally faced wall (Wth 1.6-1.75m; max. H 0.4-0.55m) and stone spread (Wth 3-4.5m). A cairn (CL005-114003-) is located NE of centre. Another cashel is located c. 20m to the SE (CL005-114001-) and a pair of enclosures lie c. 60m to the N (CL005-202001- and CL005-202002-).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 27 February 2023
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.