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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
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
53.05109, -9.13371
SMR number
CL005-160002-

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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 rough elevated pasture with clear views in all directions, centrally placed within an oval enclosure (CL005-306----) that forms part of a broader field system (CL005-160001-). Hachured the 1839 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. Called ‘Caher-Poulgrom’ by Westropp (1911, 357), and described as a ‘ring-wall of good masonry, over 9 feet thick’ (1899, 374). Westropp noted that the walls exhibited variable thickness and masonry style, suggesting that ‘built in two sections, the outer six feet thick with two faces; the inner (perhaps a terrace) three feet wide’ (1911, 358).

A subcircular cashel (41m N-S; 36.7m E-W) defined by a drystone wall (Wth 1.8-2.4m; H 0.6-1.7m), tallest to the N, decreasing in height to the S. The inner wall-face has collapsed in places with a fallen stone around the perimeter. The location of the original entrance is unclear, but there is a modern entrance gap to the E. The interior is bisected by a drystone wall (0.8-1m) aligned E-W, with an attached sheep fold. The grass-covered foundation of a house (CL005-160040-) is located in the SE quadrant. A cashel (CL005-160003-) lies c. 50m to the NE.

The following image has been uploaded:
CL005-160002-_01.jpg Aerial view from NW (photo: Archaeological Survey of Ireland)

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell

Date of upload: 22 August 2023

References

Westropp, T.J. 1911 Prehistoric remains (forts and dolments) in the Burren, Co. Clare (continued). Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 1, 343-67.

Westropp, T.J. 1899 Prehistoric remains in the Burren, County Clare. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 29, 367-84.

Nearby in the register

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

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