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Ringfort - cashel

Lissylisheen, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Lissylisheen, 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
Lissylisheen
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated (1916)
Coordinates
53.03748, -9.17641
SMR number
CL009-001025-

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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

At the top of a N-facing slope within a large field system (CL009-001001-), in an area of rock outcrop and thin grass cover. There is an E–W ravine c. 50m to the S. Indicated on the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A subcircular enclosure (ext. dims. 19m N-S; 16m E-W) defined by a drystone wall (Wth c. 1m; int. H 0.3-0.8m; ext. H 1.1-1.5m). Another drystone wall (L 7.3m) is visible in the SW quadrant of the interior. A spread of loose stone (Wth 3-3.3m; ext. H 0.4m) visible around the base of the enclosure wall suggests that it may have been built on the line of a cashel wall. Inside the wall the stone spread is flush with the interior; externally no cashel wall-facing is visible its base. There is a wedge tomb (CL009-001026-) c. 15m to the NNW.

Compiled by: Conn Herriott and Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 12 October 2021

Nearby in the register

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

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