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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
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.03980, -9.18313
SMR number
CL009-001035-

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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

In rough pasture on the NW-facing slope of a karst plateau. Immediately to the NW, the ground falls away steeply to a NE-SW ravine which widens and deepens toward the NE to form the Kilcorney Valley. Within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-001001-). An oval cashel (int. dims. 11.7m NE–SW; 8.9m NW–SE; ext. dims. 15.8m NE–SW; 12.5m NW–SE) defined by a double-faced drystone wall (Wth 1.35m–2.2m; ext. H max. 0.8m; int. H max. 0.4m), with some long facing-stones (max. L 1.2m; T 0.4m; D 0.35m). There is a funnel-shaped entrance (ext. Wth 2m; int. Wth 1.7m) at the SE. An earthfast, upright stone (H 0.3m; T 0.3m; D 0.1m), of uncertain function, stands inside, 1.6m to the NW of the entrance.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 19 July 2022

Nearby in the register

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

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