Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballymurphy, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymurphy
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.02278, -9.18181
- SMR number
- CL009-013008-
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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
In pastureland sloping slightly down to the S and W, within a multiperiod field system (CL009-013001-). Hachured on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. A subcircular area (int. diam. 20.3m E–W; 19m N–S) defined by a grass-covered spread of stones (Wth c. 5–5.3m; int. H 0.8–1m; ext. H 0.9–1m). The original entrance is not visible but a modern gap (Wth 2.4m) is evident at SW. The stone spread is surmounted by a later, partially collapsed, drystone wall. A cashel (CL009-013009-) lies c. 94m to the SE.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 21 October 2021
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.