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Ringfort - cashel

Cragballyconoal, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Cragballyconoal, 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
Cragballyconoal
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated (1916)
Coordinates
53.05564, -9.11169
SMR number
CL005-160023-

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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

On a SE-facing slope in elevated rocky pasture with commanding views from NE to S, and within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL005-160001-). Hachured on the 1840 OS 6-inch map and indicated as an enclosure on the 1916 edition. An almost square cashel (24.5m N-S; 23.5m E-W) defined by a battered drystone wall (Wth 1.4-1.5m) composed of horizontally laid slabs with larger stone blocks in the foundation course. The outer wall-facing survives on all sides (H 0.4-2.6m), while the inner facing survives intermittently (max. H 1.2m). The corners are rounded. There are suggestions of a terrace in the W wall (Wth 0.4m; H 0.6m). The interior is flat and grass-covered, but concentrations of rubble in the NW and SW corners may represent the collapsed remains of internal structures. Low co-axial slab walls extend from all four sides of the monument.
 

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell

 

Date of upload: 30 September 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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