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
- 53.09423, -9.09284
- SMR number
- CL006-009----
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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 narrow level terrace on the W face of a steep-sided ridge in an area of very rough and overgrown rock outcrop. Not marked on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map but indicated with a solid line on the 1915 ed. An oval cashel (int. dims. 33m N–S; 30m E–W) defined by a tumbled drystone wall (Wth 1.7–4m; H 0.2–0.9m) with inner and outer facing-stones surviving at E (original wall Wth 1.7m). Occasional outer facing-stones are visible at N and W but the inner facing-stones are largely obscured by collapse. A house of indeterminate date (CL006-009002-) occurs within the W sector. A field wall radiates off the SE, another runs concentric from SE–N outside the cashel and further field walls abut the concentric wall forming a field-system (CL006-009003-) with potentially contemporary elements.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 28 April 2021
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.