Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Eantybeg South, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eantybeg South
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.03951, -9.12973
- SMR number
- CL009-040001-
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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 a low-lying position on a slight S-facing slope, in pasture within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-030001-). Marked on the OS 25-inch plan (1897) and the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This subcircular cashel (int. dims. 32.8m N–S; 32m E–W) is defined by a double-faced stone wall (Wth 1–1.5m; H 1.2–1.6m). The outer wall-face at E has larger stones laid horizontally at the base, with smaller stones above it. The entrance (Wth 0.6m) is at NNW, and its E side has been re-built. Double-faced stone walls abut the exterior of the cashel at N and SW, defining a field (c. 45m N–S; c. 45m E–W) which was likely associated with the cashel.
Another cashel (CL009-040003-) lies c. 50m to the SSE with an enclosure (CL009-040004-) attached to it at E. A rectangular enclosure (CL009-040002-) lies c. 14m to the E and a house (CL009-040005-) lies c. 40m to the SE. A cairn (CL009-170----) lies c. 72m to N.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 11 July 2022
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.