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Ringfort - cashel

Doonmacfelim, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Doonmacfelim, 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
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
53.02070, -9.40005
SMR number
CL008A003004-

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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 quite level limestone outcrop with some overgrowth but offering wide views, especially to the S, over the surrounding extensive multiperiod field system (CL008-109001-). Hachured on the 1897 OS 25-inch plan and 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the RMP (1996). This well-preserved subcircular cashel (int. dims. 21.5 N-S; 19.25 E-W) is defined by a double-faced wall (Wth 1.72-2.4m; int. H 0.1-1.25m; ext. H 0.1-1.7m) which is slightly wider at the base. Lying flat on top of the wall at the WSW are three very large limestone slabs (max. L 2.8m). A possible hollow underneath them (obscured by wall tumble and overgrowth) suggests a partly exposed intramural chamber. A small rectangular animal shelter is built against the outer wall-face at the NNW. Within the very overgrown and stony interior of the cashel are several upright slabs. There is another cashel (CL008A003005-) c. 29m to the NE, another (CL008A003003-) c. 38m to the SW, and an enclosure (CL008A003009-) c. 84m to the NE.

The following images have been uploaded:
CL008A003004-_01.jpg View from N
CL008A003004-_02.jpg View from NW

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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