Ringfort - cashel

The National Monuments Service's description

On a low but prominent rise in limestone pavement and rough pasture, within a large multiperiod field system (CL008-109001-). Hachured on the 1897 OS 25-inch plan and the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This subcircular cashel (int. dims. 23.75m E-W; 20.5m N-S) is defined by a double-faced stone wall, which is best preserved at NNW (int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.35m; Wth 2-2.2m). At N the wall is reduced to a stony scarp (H 0.35m). From NNE-ESE the collapsed wall forms a stony bank (Wth 5m; H 0.2m) with traces of both inner and outer wall-faces. At ESE the wall is wider (4.5m)—possibly reflecting a double outer wall-face built to shore up the wall on this steeply sloping ground. From ESE-W (H 1-1.25m) there are only intermittent traces of the outer wall-face. A later field wall cuts off the W limits of the NW quadrant from the rest of the interior, which is slightly dished and slopes to the E. A souterrain (CL008-001005-) lies in the enclosed area. There are two other cashels nearby, one (CL008-001003-) c. 45m to the NE and another (CL008-131----) c. 114m to the SE. There is also an enclosure (CL008-058----) c. 159m to the SSW.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 16 August 2022

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.