Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Glencolumbkille North, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glencolumbkille North
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.05233, -9.01600
- SMR number
- CL006-065----
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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 moderately steep overgrown E-facing slope, overlooking improved pastureland to E and a children’s burial ground (CL006-066----) c. 250m to ENE. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). Hachured on the 1842 and 1915 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps.
A very poorly preserved oval cashel (int. dims. 32m E–W; 29m N–S) defined by a moss-covered tumbled stone spread (Wth 1.9–3.7m; H 0.4–0.9m) with no obvious trace of an original entrance or facing-stones.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 14 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.