Ringfort - cashel

The National Monuments Service's description

On a gentle E-facing slope with a sharp fall into a shallow hazel-filled valley immediately to the E. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A poorly preserved subcircular cashel (int. dims. 37m N–S; 36m E–W) defined by a low grassed-over and generally narrow-topped stone spread (Wth 2.9–4.5m; ext. H 0.1–0.7m; int. H 0.3–0.4m) with occasional inner and outer facing-stones projecting through the sod cover, but with none opposite or close enough to one another to give an accurate wall thickness. At SSW a short arc (L 3m) of bedrock forms part of the enclosing element and this feature is repeated at WNW but over a shorter distance (L 1m). There is no obvious trace of an original entrance. Grassed-over field walls extend E and W off its exterior.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin

Date of upload: 27 July 2021

References

Sites and Monuments Record County Clare. Archaeological Survey of Ireland/Office of Public Works. November 1992.

Record of Monuments and Places as established under Section 12 of the National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, County Clare. Issued by National Monuments and Historic Properties Service 1996. Department of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands.