Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Lisgoogan, Gleninsheen, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisgoogan, Gleninsheen
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1842)
- Coordinates
- 53.06436, -9.14780
- SMR number
- CL005-134----
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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 the townland boundary between Gleninsheen and Lisgoogan, on elevated ground in rough pasture and largely overgrown with hazel, in a large multiperiod field system (CL005-227004-). Listed as an ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). Indicated on the Cassini edition (1916) of the 6-inch OS map. An oval cashel (diams. 28m N-S; 23m E-W) is defined by a wall (Wth 1.1-1.8m; H 1-2m) built from large regular but uncoursed slabs, with a narrow gap (Wth 0.5m) at SE. Outer facing stones survive best from NW-N and a batter is visible in the wall at NNW. The enclosing element from S-W-N acts as the townland boundary wall. The interior is subdivided by a later field wall cutting off the SE sector. A possible hut site (CL005-134001-) is located SE of centre.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 29-9-2025
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.