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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
53.02133, -9.18037
SMR number
CL009-013010-

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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 within a multiperiod field system (CL009-013001-). Hachured on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. A suboval area (ext. dims. c. 32.8m E–W; 29.3m N–S) defined from NNW to SE by a drystone field wall which is built on top of a cashel wall. The cashel wall is reduced to a low mound (Wth 5-8m; H 0.6-1m) but traces of the outer wall-face are visible, except at N where it has been cleared outside the drystone wall. No other trace of the cashel wall survives; from SE to SW its line is indicated by a scarp and from SW to NNW another drystone wall mirrors its outline. The W part of the interior is higher than the rest and has an uneven surface. An L-shaped depression runs through the centre; its longer section (L 13m; Wth 2.5m; D 0.8m) extends ENE–WSW, then turns S at the W end (L c. 6m; Wth 2m) and peters out before the perimeter. It appears to be a gryke and is unlikely to be a souterrain as there is no evidence of drystone-walling or roof lintels. A structure (CL009-013017-) lies to the S of the depression. Two L-shaped sections of walling (L c. 6m each side) extending off the cashel at NE are probably later livestock shelters. There is another cashel (CL009-013009-) c. 48m to the NNW.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 22 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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