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Ringfort - cashel

Lisdoonvarna, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Lisdoonvarna, 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
Lisdoonvarna
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.04107, -9.26172
SMR number
CL008-045013-

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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 a S-facing slope in undulating pastureland and outcropping karstic limestone, within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL009-001001-). This possible cashel (int. dims. 16.5m N-S; 16m E-W) is defined by a collapsed and grass-covered stone wall (Wth 2m, including collapse; H 0.8m) from N-WNW; no clear wall-revetting is evident. No visible trace survives at NW where piles of field-clearance rubble and natural limestone outcrop occur. Within the interior at S, a hut site (CL008-045018-) is built against the wall-face. A possible annexe, probably originally circular in plan (diam. c. 9m), abuts the outer wall-face at N; it is defined by a collapsed stone wall, which is not visible at W, again due to the rubble and rock outcrop. There is a cashel (CL008-045014-) c. 35m to the S and an enclosure (CL008-045012-) c. 93m to the SSW.

The following image has been uploaded: CL008-045013-_01.jpg View from NE

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 17 October 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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