Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Aillwee, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aillwee
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.08190, -9.11029
- SMR number
- CL005-248----
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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 plateau on the summit of Ailwee Hill and within a multiperiod field system (CL005-104001-). An irregular or pentagonal enclosure (diam. c. 26m) defined by a stone wall and visible on Ordnance Survey ortho photography (2013-2018) and on Digital Globe.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 25 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.