Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Doonmacfelim, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doonmacfelim
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.02109, -9.39963
- SMR number
- CL008A003005-
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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 undulating limestone outcrop, offering wide views 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 'Mound' in the RMP (1996). A circular cashel (int. dims. 14.2m N-S; 14m E-W) defined by a collapsed and overgrown double-faced wall (av. Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.4m) with associated tumble (Wth 2m on either side of the wall). At S and NNW two distinct outer wall-faces are visible, suggesting that the wall was stepped. The cashel interior slopes very gently to SW and is covered with loose boulders. There is another cashel (CL008A003004-) c. 29m to SW, and an enclosure (CL008A003009-) c. 38m to ENE.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 26 April 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.