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Ringfort - cashel

Doonmacfelim,Ballaghaline, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Doonmacfelim, Ballaghaline, 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
Doonmacfelim,Ballaghaline
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
53.02029, -9.40078
SMR number
CL008A003003-

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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 high point of limestone outcrop commanding wide views all around, and within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL008-109001-). Hachured on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the RMP (1996). A subcircular cashel (int. dims. 34.25m E-W; 33m N-S) defined by a double-faced wall (Wth 2.22-2.85m; max. int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.3-1.48m). From E to S the wall has mostly collapsed (Wth c. 3-4m). From SW to NW a later field wall was built over the inner wall-face. A NW-SE field wall and overgrowth cover the outer wall-face at NE. Foundations of a house (CL008A003011-) occupy the centre of the cashel. Several overgrown piles of rubble lie around the edge of the undulating interior. Another cashel (CL008A003004-) lies c. 38m to the NE and there is an enclosure (CL008-144----) c. 107m to the SW.

The following image has been uploaded:
CL008A003003-_01.jpg View from N

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 26 April 2023

Nearby in the register

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

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