Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Doonmacfelim,ballaghaline, County Clare, Ireland
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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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 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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.