Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballycahan, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycahan
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.02996, -9.38574
- SMR number
- CL008-147----
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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
In rough pastureland in an area of outcropping limestone. The overgrown outline of a possible circular cashel (diam. c. 20m) is visible on current aerial imagery (OSi Digitalglobe (2011-2013) and Geohive MapGenie (2013-2018)). A field wall cuts across it from E to SSW and other field wall extend off it at SSW and NNW. Reported to the National Monuments Service by Conn Herriott. Another cashel (CL008-130001-) lies c. 11m to the W.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 27 September 2022
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.