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Ringfort - cashel

Ballygastell, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Ballygastell, 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
Ballygastell
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.03561, -9.25169
SMR number
CL008-045016-

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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

Near the S end of a large flattish field of pasture and outcropping limestone, overlooked by small hillocks to the S, within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL009-001001-). This subrectangular cashel (int. dims. 69m E-W; 68m N-S) is defined by a double-faced wall (Wth 2.7m; H 0.9m) from NW-NE. From NE-SE the wall is reduced to a low stone spread and a later field wall has been built on top of it from E-SW. From S-NW only the inner wall-face and rubble core (Wth, including slip, 2m; H 0.5m) are generally visible. A modern gap (Wth 2.3m) cuts through the wall at NW. An internal dividing wall (Wth 1.1m; H 0.25m), running NW-SE, is visible in the W half of the interior and there is a house site (CL008-0450222-) in the SE quadrant. A natural scarp (max. H 1m) runs parallel to the S section of the wall. Field walls extend off the wall at NNE, NE, E, SE and SSW, and piles of field clearance are visible in adjoining fields. A children's burial ground (CL008-055001-) lies c. 116m to the SSE. There is another cashel (CL008-054001-) c. 136m to the SSW and another (CL009-001031-) c. 160m to the NE.

The following image has been uploaded: CL008-045016-_01.jpg Aerial view from E

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 18 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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