Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Croagh South, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Croagh South
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.05362, -9.18789
- SMR number
- CL005-115014-
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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 raised area of rough pasture with views from NW-SE, and within a multiperiod field system (CL005-115001-). A roughly circular cashel (25.5m E-W; 24m N-S) defined from S-N by bank of earth and stone (Wth 2-2.5m; H 0.6m) with some internal facing (H 0.4-0.6m) and from N-S by a bank (Wth 2m; H 0.6m) surmounted by a wall (H 1m; Wth 0.4-0.6m) which appears largely rebuilt. A gated entrance at S may be the original. A N-S modern field boundary wall crosses the site just W of centre.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 28 March 2023
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.