Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Keelhilla, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Keelhilla
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.07314, -8.99242
- SMR number
- CL006-026----
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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 crest of a low N–S ridge with a moderately steep fall immediately to E. Hachured on the 1842 and 1915 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A very poorly preserved subcircular cashel (int. dims. 33.4m N–S; 33.2m E–W) defined by a wide stone spread (Wth 3.5–6.5m; H 0.5–0.8m) with intermittent inner and outer facing-stones (max H 1.2m) surviving between SSW and N (original wall Wth 2.8m). A gap at E (Wth 1m) is flanked by a large block of stone on its S side and is probably the original entrance. From SSE to SSW a low bluff of outcropping rock (H 2m) forms part of the site limits and the internal base of the bluff is strewn with collapsed stone and boulders.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 4 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.