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Ringfort - cashel

Kilcorney, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Kilcorney, 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
Kilcorney
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.03599, -9.15739
SMR number
CL009-021011-

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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

On level ground at the N edge of a plateau and within a multiperiod field system (CL009-021001-), with land falling away to the N into an E–W ravine. Depicted as a field boundary curving from SW through N to SE on the 1897 OS 25-inch plan and the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map; a sheepfold is shown against the inner wall-face at NW on the 25-inch plan. This circular cashel (ext. diam. 27.8m) is defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 1.8–2.3m). One or two courses of the horizontally laid stones of the outer wall-face (H 0.2-0.6m) are visible all around; the inner face is flush with the interior. A later drystone wall (H 1-1.6m) has been built on the line of outer wall-face. An enclosure (CL009-021048-) lies immediately to the SW and there is another one (CL009-021004-) c. 84m to the SSW. (Grant 2010, 47)

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 17 November 2021

References

Grant, C. 2010 Kilcorney archaeological project. The Other Clare 34, 46-8.

Nearby in the register

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

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