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Ringfort - cashel

Poulgorm, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Poulgorm, 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
Poulgorm
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Cahernamweela
Latest-edition OS map
Cahernamweela (1916)
Coordinates
53.05988, -9.13307
SMR number
CL005-154----

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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

In elevated flat scrub-covered pasture close to the edge of a ravine to the SE. Overlooked by higher ground from W to NNE with clear views from NE to SW. Within a multiperiod field system (CL005-227004-). Hachured and named ‘Cahernamweela’ on the 1839 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. A circular cashel (20m N-S; 21m E-W) defined by a partially collapsed stone wall (int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1-1.5m; Wth 1.15-1.2m) partially surrounded by a rock-cut fosse from N to S and from WSW to W. Inner and outer wall-facing survives intermittently. The outer wall-facing is largely extant between the N and SE and between SSW and W, but has significantly collapsed from W to NNW. A small section of inner wall-facing survives at the N. A faced entrance gap with a collapsed lintel is present at ESE. There are recent breaks in the wall at NNE and NE. The interior is flat with the low foundations of a building (CL005-154001-) along its SSE edge, which was described by Westropp as a ‘well-marked hut-site, a semicircle, inside the wall and adjoining the gateway’ (1896-1901, 674). 

 

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell

 

Date of upload: 21 October 2025

Nearby in the register

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

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