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
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.03671, -9.23960
- SMR number
- CL009-001034-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 a SW-facing slope on a gently undulating karst plateau in rough pasture, within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-001001-). Based on its location, this is probably the cashel described by Westropp (1915, 49) as ‘a small house ring, its wall coarsely built, and now barely a yard high, on a knoll of crag’. The cashel (int. dims. 21.5m N–S; 19.1m), subcircular in plan, is defined by a stone spread (Wth 1.7-3m), which is visible at the base of a now mostly collapsed low drystone wall (Wth 0.4-0.8m; H 0.4-.06m). Traces of the inner and outer wall-facing of the cashel survive at E where the original width of the wall is 1.6m.
Compiled by: Conn Herriott and Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 13 October 2021
References
Westropp, T.J. 1915 Prehistoric remains (forts and dolmens) in Burren and its south western border, Co. Clare. Part 12: North Western Part. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 5, 45-62, 249-74.
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
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- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.