Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Craggycorradan West, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Craggycorradan West
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.04682, -9.35208
- SMR number
- CL008-028----
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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
In an area of undulating rough pasture and outcropping limestone. Hachured on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and indicated on the 1920 ed. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the RMP (1996). This circular cashel (diam. c. 33m) is defined by a stone wall (base Wth 1m; H 1m) with a collapsed rubble spread (Wth 2-3m) extending from its base. It is densely overgrown with scrub.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 12 September 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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.