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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.06171, -9.16481
- SMR number
- CL005-270----
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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 in an upland area of karst with reasonable grass cover and within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL005-227004-). A subrectangular enclosure (c. 25m N-S; c. 25m E-W) defined by stone walls with a slightly rounded SW corner and disturbed at SE. Visible on Digital Globe (2011-2013) and on OSi Aerial Premium orthophotography (2012-2018). Foundations of a house are visible in the NW quadrant.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 21 December 2021
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.