Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cahermacrusheen, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahermacrusheen
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.04146, -9.36093
- SMR number
- CL008-126----
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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 rise in rough pastureland and karstic outcrop, with wide views and within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL008-109001-). A subcircular platform (24m N-S; 20.5m E-W) defined by a low stone and earth bank (av. Wth 2m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.35-1.15m). At NNW the bank is very slightly lower and there is a poorly defined ramp-like feature up to it from the exterior. At SE several metres of the bank have been reduced to a scarp; some loose rubble lies scattered about here. The cashel interior undulates slightly, sloping gently to the S. A kidney-shaped hollow (7m NW-SE; 4.9m NE-SW; D 0.3m) lies just inside the N perimeter and a small oval mound (L 3.5m NW-SE; 1m NE-SW; H 0.15m) lies near the W edge.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of revision: 25 April 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.