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Ringfort - cashel

Ballyvoe (Corcomroe By.), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Ballyvoe, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballyvoe (Corcomroe By.)
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.03359, -9.37731
SMR number
CL008-007----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Beside a disused bothán in a field of karstic limestone pavement and scrub within a relict field system (CL009-004001-) and a larger multiperiod field system (CL008-109001-). This may be the fort described by Westropp (1905, 357) as ‘Another fort of large blocks, but much broken’, which adjoined a ‘ruined cottage’. A possible cashel (int. diam. 22m N-S), subcircular in plan, is defined at E by an earth and stone bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.85) which decreases in height toward N (ext. H 0.5m) and elsewhere is difficult to trace due to the natural slope of the ground. Intermittent limestone uprights, concentrated at N and S, may be the remains of an outer revetment. The raised interior (av. H 1m over exterior) is flat.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 18 August 2022

References

Westropp, T. J. 1905 Prehistoric remains (Forts and Dolmens) along the borders of Burren, in the county of Clare. Part 2 - west Corcomroe. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 35, 342-61.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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