Ringfort - cashel

The National Monuments Service's description

On a gentle S-facing slope in pasture and karst limestone, within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-001001-). Hachured on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996).
A circular cashel (28.7m N–S; 27.7m E–W) defined by a double-faced drystone wall (Wth including spread 2m; ext. H c. 1m; int. H 0.4–0.5m). A later field wall has been built along the line of the outer wall-face. A gap at NW is modern. Centrally located within the interior are two C-shaped grassed-over mounds of spoil (H 0.5–0.7; S mound int. L 8m E–W; 5m N–S; N mound int. L 5m E–W; 3m N–S) opening to the W. Inside the wall at E there is a hollow sunken area (diam. of base c. 4.5m; D c. 0.6m). This does not appear to be a collapsed souterrain but rather is probably the result of digging. Several modern field walls radiate from the cashel at NE, ESE, SSW and W.

Compiled by: Conn Herriott and Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 12 October 2021

References

Record of Monuments and Places as established under Section 12 of the National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, County Clare. Issued by National Monuments and Historic Properties Service 1996. Department of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands.