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Ringfort - cashel

Ballyconnoe South, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Ballyconnoe South, 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
Ballyconnoe South
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.03459, -9.24616
SMR number
CL009-001032-

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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 on a gently undulating karst limestone plateau, in rough pasture, within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-001001-). No visible surface trace of the N end of this cashel survives as an E-W running road cuts across it. To the S of the road the remaining section is defined by a scarp (20.2m E-W; 14.6m N-S; H 0.2-1.5m), which is highest at S where two to three courses of the outer wall-face (H 1m) survive for a length of c. 5m. The interior is level.

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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