Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Formoyle East, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Formoyle East
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.10642, -9.22991
- SMR number
- CL005-240----
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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 W-facing slope on the E side of the Caher River valley in pasture and within a multiperiod field system (CL005-014001-). A possible square cashel (c. 32m N-S; c. 30m E-W) defined at E and S by a double-faced wall and at N by a single wall visible at ITM 517647, 706913 on Ordnance Survey ortho photography (2013-2018) and on Digital Globe. The double-faced wall extends N from the E side for c. 30m.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 24 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.