Ringfort - cashel

The National Monuments Service's description

On a rise in undulating rough pastureland and outcropping limestone pavement that slopes gently to the SW and steeply to WNW and 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 subrectangular cashel (c. 28m NE-SW; c. 24m NW-SE) is defined from E-S by a grass-covered stone wall and tumble (base Wth 5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.5m). From S-W it decreases in height (int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.3m) and narrows in width (Wth 6m at S; Wth 1.5m). There are two animal gaps at SW. From WNW-E it is defined by a scarp (H 0.25-1m). A possible souterrain (CL008-008003-) is evident in the NE sector of the perimeter. In the S centre of the interior an L-shaped bank (Wth 1m; H 0.1m) of earth and stone, oriented SW-NE and then turning NW, may be the remains of an internal division. Another possible internal division is visible on OSi Aerial Premium aerial imagery (2013-2018). Several grass-covered field walls abut the cashel from E-W. There is a possible cashel (CL008-008001-) c. 40m to the WNW. (Westropp 1905, 357)

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 19 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.