Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cragballyconoal, County Clare, Ireland
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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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 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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.