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
- Indicated (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.05970, -9.11566
- SMR number
- CL005-160022-
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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, on a stretch of level ground with clear views in all directions, within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL005-160001-). Indicated on the 1916 OS 6-inch map, but not the earlier 1840 edition. A subcircular cashel (int. 20m N-S; 17m E-W) defined by a partially collapsed drystone wall (Wth 1.1m) with intermittently surviving inner and outer wall-facing. The outer wall-facing is best preserved at WNW (H 1.4m) and has been robbed out between the E and SSE. The inner facing is largely collapsed but a short stretch survives at the SSW (H 1m). There is a gateway (Wth 0.95m) in the SSE of the cashel wall with upright jambstones on either side. The interior is grass-covered and slopes gently down to S. Two animal pens abut the NE external wall of the monument, and three low mound walls radiate from it to the SE, SW and NW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 30 September 2025
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.