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Ringfort - cashel

Cahermaclanchy, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Cahermaclanchy, 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
Cahermaclanchy
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
53.04511, -9.36109
SMR number
CL008-024----

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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 fairly level ground in an area of partly cleared rough pasture, scrub and karst outcrop, within a large multiperiod field system (CL008-109001-). Hachured on the 1897 OS 25-inch plan and 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the RMP (1996). This subcircular cashel (int. dims. 19.75m NNW-SSE; 18.5m NE-SW) is defined by an overgrown bank of limestone rubble (Wth 7m; av. int. H 0.25m; ext. H c. 1m) in which short lengths of the wall-face and rubble core are intermittently traceable at N, NE and SE, surviving to two/three courses in height. At N a second outer wall-face can be seen at intervals, c. 3-4m outside the main outer wall-face. This appears to be a revetment for a terrace, built in order to strengthen or shore up the cashel wall on the sloping ground.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 5 September 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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