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Ringfort - cashel

Kiltaan, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Kiltaan, 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
Kiltaan
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
53.02194, -9.18078
SMR number
CL009-013009-

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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 pastureland on ground 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 drystone field wall (H 1.4-1.5m) has been built on the line of the outer wall-face of this subcircular cashel (ext. dims. 22.3m E–W; 21.8m N–S), which is reduced to a grass-covered stone spread (int. H 0.4m); inner and outer wall-facing at N indicate that the original wall was 2m wide. A stone-lined entrance gap (Wth 0.95m) is visible at SE. Within the interior a band of stones (Wth 1-2m; H 0.5m) has been piled against the drystone wall, it increases in width at E (Wth 5m). An L-shaped stone wall (max. H 1.5m) is located outside the cashel wall, c. 1m to the E of the entrance. There is a cashel (CL009-013010-) c. 48m to the SSE and another one (CL009-013008-) c. 94m to the NW.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 21 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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