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Ringfort - cashel

Ballyryan, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Ballyryan, 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
Ballyryan
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated (1916)
Coordinates
53.04689, -9.36636
SMR number
CL008-021----

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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 an overgrown limestone-pavement terrace, within a large multiperiod field system (CL008-109001-); the ground immediately to the SE falls away steeply while a higher terrace, further SE, overlooks it. Indicated as a field wall 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 D-shaped cashel (int. dim. 38.5m SW-NE) is defined by a double-faced stone wall (Wth 3.25m; int. H 1.25m; ext. H 0.5-2m) from SW to NE; a straight side at SE is defined by a natural scarp (H 0.5m). The outer randomly coursed wall-face is visible from SW-NE; the inner wall-face survives intermittently and is one to two courses high. Two gaps (Wth c. 1-1.1m) at N and NE have been loosely filled with stones and both appear to be recent cattle gaps. Several field-clearance mounds are visible in the interior.

The following image has been uploaded: CL008-021----_01.jpg View from NW

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 30 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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