Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballymurphy, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymurphy
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.02551, -9.17494
- SMR number
- CL009-013014-
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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 rough pasture on the limestone pavement of the Burren plateau, within a multiperiod field system (CL009-013001-). A rectangular cashel (40.8m N–S; 36m E–W) defined by the collapsed remains of a double-faced drystone wall (Wth 2m; H 0.8m). Wall-footings consist of horizontally laid stones and inner and outer wall-facing (Wth 1.2m) survives at S. At the centre of the interior are the foundations of a possible hut site (CL009-013018-). Other structures (possibly secondary) abut the inner wall-face at W (int. dims. c. 4m N–S; 2.8m E–W; wall Wth 1.4m) and in the SW (int. dims. c. 5m N–S; 5m E–W) and NE (int. dims. c. 1.2m N–S; c. 1.2m E–W) corners.
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.