Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballyconnoe South, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyconnoe South
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.03670, -9.24891
- SMR number
- CL009-001031-
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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 an elevated plateau of undulating rough pasture and karst limestone, on ground sloping slightly down to the S, within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-001001-). A subcircular cashel (int. dims. 28.5m NW–SE; 27.7m NE–SW) defined by a low grass-covered stone wall (Wth c. 1.5–2.5m; H 0.4–0.5m). The original width of the wall (0.9–1.2m) is evident at N. Outer wall-facing survives at NNE and from S to W. Gaps at N (Wth 2m) and S (Wth 4.6m) are later features. A field boundary cuts across the interior from SE to W. Other field boundaries abut the wall at NNE, E, SSW and NW. There is a small house (CL009-001042-) c. 17m to the ENE. Other cashels lie c. 140m to the NNW (CL009-001002-) and c. 160m to the SW (CL008-045016-).
Compiled by: Conn Herriott and Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 12 October 2021
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.