Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Knockaskeheen, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockaskeheen
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Knockaskeheen Caher
- Latest-edition OS map
- Knockaskeheen Caher (Site of) (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.02989, -9.31207
- SMR number
- CL008-040----
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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 knoll in hilly pastureland with good views to the S. Hachured and labelled 'Knockaskeheen Caher' on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Recorded by Westropp (1905, 352) as being ‘so completely demolished since 1839 that no trace can be found on the green knoll where it once stood’. No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 27 September 2022
References
Westropp, T.J. 1915 Prehistoric remains (forts and dolmens) in Burren and its south western border, Co. Clare. Part 12: North Western Part. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 5, 45-62, 249-74.
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.