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Ringfort - cashel

Ballymurphy, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Ballymurphy, 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
Ballymurphy
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
53.03020, -9.18164
SMR number
CL009-016----

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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 a slight rise in a gentle S-facing plateau, within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-013001-). Hachured on the 1897 OS 25-inch plan and 1920 ed. OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). A small subcircular cashel (19.5m E–W; 18.6m N–S) defined by a double-faced stone wall (Wth 1.1m; int. H 0.6–0.8m; ext. H 0.8–1.2m), most clearly visible at E. The outer wall-face can be traced almost all round; it is built of horizontally laid stones. The barely perceptible entrance (Wth 1m) is at SSE, 1.7m E of a vertical stone (H. 1.1m) in the outer wall-face. A spread of stones (Wth 3.3–4.5m; H 0.2–0.4m) is banked against the inner wall-face.

Another cashel (CL009-013015-) lies c. 50m to the WSW.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 27 October 2021

References

Record of Monuments and Places as established under Section 12 of the National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, County Clare. Issued by National Monuments and Historic Properties Service 1996. Department of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands.

Nearby in the register

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

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