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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
53.03405, -9.25311
SMR number
CL008-054----

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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 low rise, in undulating pastureland and limestone outcrops, within a field system (CL009-001001-). Marked on Robinson's (1977) map. This cashel was probably originally subcircular in plan (c. 41m ENE-WSW; c. 34m E-W) but an ENE-WSW running road cuts through its SE limits giving it its present roughly D-shaped outline. It is defined by a collapsed and grass-covered stone wall (Wth 1.2m; av. int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.7m) and associated tumble (combined Wth 2.5m) from S-N-SE. The outer wall-face survives to two/three courses high from WSW-NW. Small animal gaps run through the wall from N-SE. There is a house site (CL008-054002-) in the N half of the interior. Its W wall continues running in a southerly direction (L 17m), almost bisecting the interior of the cashel. A shorter length of similar collapsed and grassed-over walling (L 5m), running NE-SW, is visible in the S sector to the E of this wall.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 20 October 2022

References

Robinson, T. 1977 (revised 1999) The Burren: a two-inch map of the uplands of north-west Clare. Map scale 1:31680. Roundstone: Folding Landscapes.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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