Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Berneens,poulnabrucky, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Berneens,poulnabrucky
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Caherberneen
- Latest-edition OS map
- Caherberneen (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.06063, -9.16776
- SMR number
- CL005-120----
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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 slightly raised area of rough pasture surrounded by hazel and rocky scrub, with good views in all directions. On the boundary between Berneens and Poulnabrucky townlands and within a multiperiod field system (CL005-227004-). Hachured and named ‘Caherberneen’ on the 1842 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps, and described by Westropp (1900-02, 423) as ‘a nearly levelled fort’.
A circular cashel (diam. 16m) defined from SW to ESE by a wall (Wth 1.2m) with external facing (H 0.8-1.4m) of rough flat slabs, a short stretch of inner facing (H 0.05m) at NNW and a rubble core. From SE to SW it is defined by a scarp (H 1.6m) on which the townland boundary curves.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 4 April 2023
References
Westropp, T.J. 1900-02 The cahers of county Clare: their names, features, and bibliography. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy Series 3, vol. 6, 415-49.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.