Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Gortaclare, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortaclare
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.06847, -9.06128
- SMR number
- CL006-242----
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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 W-facing slope at the SW foot of Gortaclare Mountain and within a field system (CL006-042001-) extending all over the plateau. A square enclosure (c. 25m NW-SE) defined by a mostly grassed-over stone wall visible on OSi Aerial Premium (2012-2018).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 7 December 2021
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - ring-cairnunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.