Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Lisdoonvarna, County Clare, Ireland
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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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 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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.