Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballyinsheen Beg, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyinsheen Beg
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.03533, -9.27274
- SMR number
- CL008-045008-
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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 undulating pastureland and outcropping karstic limestone, within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL009-001001-). This oval cashel (int. dims. 23.5m NNW-SSE; 16m ENE-WSW) is defined by a collapsed and grass-covered stone wall (Wth 1.1-2m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.45m), which is best preserved at SE and quite unclear from SSE-SW. There is an enclosure (CL008-045007-) c. 68m to the SW and a sheepfold (CL008-045009-) c. 69m to the NE.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 5 October 2022
Nearby in the register
- Sheepfoldunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.