Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Berneens, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Berneens
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.06567, -9.17557
- SMR number
- CL005-208001-
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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 with hazel scrub to the S and W and within a multiperiod field system (CL005-115001-). Indicated as an enclosure on the 1916 OS 6-inch map. A subcircular cashel (c. 19m E-W; c. 18.5m N-S) defined by a drystone wall and with a souterrain (CL005-208002-) in the interior. Noted by Sharon Parr, and visible on OSi MapGenie orthophotography (2013-2018). Field boundaries extend N and S from the wall of the cashel.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 14 October 2025
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.