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Ringfort - cashel

Glasha More, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Glasha More, 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
Glasha More
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.03973, -9.37278
SMR number
CL008-013001-

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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

On a low rise in undulating pastureland and limestone pavement, within a large multiperiod field system (CL008-109001-). Listed as 'Potential site - aerial photo' in the RMP (1996). This subcircular cashel (int. diam. 24m) is defined by a double-faced wall (Wth 1.95m), the outer face of which survives intermittently to two/three courses. The inner wall-face is traceable from NNW-E and from S-SW. Where the wall-faces have collapsed the wall is 2-3m wide. From S-SW, at a distance of 2m from the cashel wall, a line of revetment on a scarp (H 1m) runs parallel to it. This may be part of an external skin or terrace that was built in order to support the cashel wall on the natural slope. Within the interior, there is a souterrain (CL008-013004-) in the NW sector and a children's burial ground (CL008-013005-) in the SE sector. Two other cashels (CL008-013002- and CL008-013006-) lie c. 30m to the S and c. 54m to the SW respectively, and there is an enclosure (CL008-013003-) c. 94m to the E.

The following image has been uploaded: CL008-013001-_01.jpg View from SE

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 23 August 2022

Nearby in the register

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

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