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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
53.03565, -9.24307
SMR number
CL009-001033-

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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 gently undulating karst plateau in rough pasture, within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-001001-). This subcircular or oval cashel (int. dims. 47.4m NNW–SSE; 40m ENE–WSW) is defined by a stone wall (original Wth 1.4–1.5m) that has generally collapsed to form a grass-covered stony spread (Wth 2.5–4m; ext. H 0.5–0.6m; int. H 0.3–0.4m), which is visible from S through W and N to E. The outer wall-face can generally be traced all round. A gap (Wth 0.8m) at N, lined on either side by outward-facing dressed stones, may be the original entrance. An old grass-covered N-S running field wall cuts across the E half of the interior. Field walls extending off the cashel at E and SSW may be contemporary with the field system. A later drystone wall has been built along the perimeter from S to NW. Drystone walls also cut through the SE quadrant. A possible enclosure (CL009-001057-) lies c. 79m to the WNW.

Compiled by: Conn Herriott and Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 13 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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