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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
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated (1916)
Coordinates
53.06567, -9.10699
SMR number
CL005-160030-

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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

In elevated rocky pasture, on a level area on the S-facing slopes of a hill with higher ground to the N and clear views to the S. Within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL005-160001-). Not shown on the 1840 OS 6-inch map; indicated as a partial enclosure on the 1916 edition. Marked on Tim Robinson’s Burren map (1977). Listed as ‘Rectangular enclosure’ on the RMP (1996). A subrectangular cashel (36m NW-SE), defined by a drystone wall surviving on the N, E and W sides, and completely robbed out on the S. The walls are slightly bowed and the corners are rounded. The wall is composed of thin flat slabs and is battered. Outer wall-facing (H 0.8-1.3m) survives along most of the wall. An original entrance is located to the SSE (Wth 1.6m). It is faced on its S side with a large collapsed lintel lying in the opening. A second rubble-filled break (Wth 3m) can be found to the E. The interior is uneven, falling to the NW, W and SE. A possible hut site abutting the cashel wall at NW may be contemporary. The monument has been extended to the S to form a larger subrectangular enclosure (c. 58m N-S). A cashel (CL005-160029-) is located c. 40m to the W.

 

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell

 

Date of upload: 30 September 2025

References

Robinson, T. 1977 (revised 1999) The Burren: a two-inch map of the uplands of north-west Clare. Map scale 1:31680. Roundstone: Folding Landscapes.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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