Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cragballyconoal, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cragballyconoal
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.05510, -9.11587
- SMR number
- CL005-160020-
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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
In elevated rocky pasture surrounded by level ground with restricted views and within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL005-160001-). Hachured on the 1840 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. Noted by Westropp (1899, 372) as one of three ‘nearly-levelled cahers’ in the S of Cragballyconoal townland. A subcircular cashel (38m N-S; 34m E-W) defined by a partially collapsed cashel wall. The outer wall-facing survives around most of the monument and is highest to the E (H 0.7m). The inner wall-facing survives intermittently and is highest to WSW (H 0.8m). The cashel is bisected by a tall drystone wall shown on the 1916 OS map and aligned N-S, with breaches on either side of this wall. The position of the original entrance is unclear. The interior is flat and contains a souterrain (CL005-160046-) to the E of the bisecting wall. Three small irregular drystone enclosures abut the E external wall of the cashel, and a subrectangular enclosure depicted on the 1916 ed. OS map abuts its W side. A large subrectangular enclosure (CL005-160052-) abuts the N side of the cashel.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 30 September 2025
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.