Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cahermaclanchy, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahermaclanchy
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.04209, -9.36435
- SMR number
- CL008-016005-
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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 N-facing slope in rough pasture and outcropping limestone, within a local relict field system (CL008-016001-) and a larger multiperiod field system (CL008-109001-). Hachured on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the RMP (1996). This almost circular cashel (30.9m N-S; 29m E-W) is defined by a double-faced stone wall (Wth 1.3-2.1m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.4m), which from SW-N survives to five/six courses in height. A spread of collapsed material (Wth 1-2m) is visible at the base of both wall-faces. From N-ENE the wall is reduced to a low overgrown bank, while from ENE-S only the outer wall-face is visible beneath a later field wall. From S-SW the wall is straight (L c. 20m) and here again only the outer wall-face can be traced. There is a house site (CL008-016006-) in the S sector of the undulating rocky interior. Another cashel (CL008-016004-) lies c. 74m to the S.
The following image has been uploaded: CL008-016005-_01 View from NNW
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 24 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.
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.