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Ringfort - cashel

Keelhilla, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Keelhilla, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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