Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballymihil, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymihil
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured (1842)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.05753, -9.12355
- SMR number
- CL005-160008-
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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 rocky spur in low-lying scrub with areas of cleared pasture to E and W, overlooked by higher ground on all sides with restricted views. Within a field system (CL005-160001-). Hachured on the 1839 OS 6-inch map. The site was noted by Westropp (1899, 373) ‘a small ring-wall lies on a projecting spur; its walls much gapped, and it only contains a modern sheep-fold’.
A subcircular cashel (int. 22m N-S; 21m E-W) defined by a heavily overgrown stone wall (H 0.8-1.9m; Wth c. 2m) only the outer face of which is visible. No inner wall-facing survives. The wall is composed of roughly coursed masonry with very large blocks present towards the base. The location of the entrance is unclear. The interior is flat and covered in blackthorn bushes.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 22 August 2023
References
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.