Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Gragan West, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gragan West
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.08301, -9.19472
- SMR number
- CL005-298----
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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
In rough pasture on the NE-facing slope of a N-S ridge, on the E side of the Caher valley. An arc of stone SE-N is visible on Digital Globe (2011-2013) and on OSiMapGenie (2012-2018) and may be the remains of a cashel. Noted by Ros Ó Maoldúin. An enclosure lies c. 45m to the E.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 14 December 2022
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Monumental structureunder 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.