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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
53.02109, -9.39963
SMR number
CL008A003005-

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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 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

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

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