Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Kilcorney, County Clare, Ireland
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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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
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.