Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Rannagh East, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rannagh East
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.05512, -9.07262
- SMR number
- CL006-055----
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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 rough outcropping karst completely overgrown with hazel. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). Hachured on the 1842 and 1915 eds. of the 6-inch OS map.
A poorly preserved roughly circular cashel (int. dims. 23m N–S; 22m E–W) defined by a low wall (av. Wth 1m) with inner and outer facing-stones (max. H 0.7m). A gap at ESE (Wth 1.25m) partly filled with collapsed stone is probably the original entrance. From NE–WNW the cashel wall is built on low bedrock terracing (H 0.9–1.5m) which may have been roughly quarried out to provide stone for building the cashel wall. This also lowered the outer ground level accentuating the height of the cashel wall.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 28 July 2021
References
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.
Sites and Monuments Record County Clare. Archaeological Survey of Ireland/Office of Public Works. November 1992.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.