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 (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.08277, -9.11419
- SMR number
- CL005-265----
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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 the NW edge of a plateau high on Ailwee Hill and within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL005-104001-). Indicated on the 1916 OS 6-inch map. A subrectangular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) defined by a straight stone wall at E and S and by a curved wall SW-NE visible on OSi Aerial Premium orthophoto (2012-2018) and on Digital Globe (2011-2013).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 13 December 2021
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.