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Ringfort - cashel

Berneens,Poulnabrucky, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Berneens, Poulnabrucky, 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
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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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

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

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

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