Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Lisdoonvarna, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisdoonvarna
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.03453, -9.26143
- SMR number
- CL008-051----
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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 low rise (H 1-1.8m) in undulating pastureland and outcropping limestone, within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL009-001001-). Hachured on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. This much-disturbed subcircular cashel (30.5m E-W; 22.7m N-S) is defined by a collapsed and grassed-over wall (Wth 1.5m including slip; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 1.4m) at E and elsewhere by a scarp. Up to three courses (H 0.45m) of the outer wall-face survives intermittently at NE and E but no trace of the inner face is evident. A collapsed and grassed-covered L-shaped wall (Wth 0.4m; H 0.15m) runs through the centre of the interior, running NNW-SSE (L 11m) before turning ENE (L 4m). The perimeter of the cashel has been extensively quarried out at SSW where a telegraph pole stands, and also at W and N.
The following image has been uploaded: CL008-051----_01 View from SE
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 19 October 2022
Nearby in the register
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- House - medievalunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.