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Ringfort - cashel

Doolin, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Doolin, 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
Doolin
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.02087, -9.38904
SMR number
CL008-057007-

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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

Encompassing the top of a suboval hillock in rough pasture, in an area of undulating land with limestone outcrops within a field system (CL008-057001-). This suboval enclosure (42m NW-SE; 24m NE-SW) is defined by a collapsed double-faced stone wall (Wth 2.2-2.45m) which follows the top of the hillock's natural scarp. The outer wall-face (max. H 1m) survives to one/two courses all around, while the inner wall-face is most clearly visible at SE-S but only intermittently elsewhere. A grass-covered wall runs NE-SW across the N centre of the gently SE-sloping interior. The grassed-over remains of three houses of indeterminate date (CL008-057010-, CL008-057011- and CL008-057012-) lie in the S half.

The following image has been uploaded:
CL008-057007-_01.jpg Aerial view of cashel from S (ASI photo, SMR file)

Compiled by: Mary Tunney 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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