Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Dangan (burren By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dangan (burren By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.08378, -9.12861
- SMR number
- CL005-252----
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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 S-facing slope high on Ailwee Hill within a multiperiod field system (CL005-104001-). A trapezoidal-shaped enclosure (c. 18m N-S; c. 25m E-W) defined by a stone spread at E and S with a possible later wall superimposed on N and W visible on Ordnance Survey ortho photography (2013-2018) and on Digital Globe. The S line has a slightly convex curve while the W, N and E sides are straight.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 25 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.