Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballygastell, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygastell
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.04147, -9.25704
- SMR number
- CL008-045015-
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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 SE-facing slope in undulating rough pastureland and outcropping karstic limestone, within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL009-001001-). This subrectangular cashel (18.6m E-W; 17.6m N-S) is defined by a wall (av. Wth 1m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.65m) of upright limestone slabs and loose boulders; no clear wall-facing is evident. Several gaps and breaks occur in the wall but the entrance is not obvious. Within the E half of the interior two internal divisions are visible: one to the N is a squared-off area (8.6m E-W; 8.6m N-S) defined a collapsed and grass-covered wall. The other, to its S, is a smaller rectangular area.
The following image has been uploaded: CL008-045015-.jpg View from S
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 17 October 2022
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.