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Ringfort - cashel

Caherconnell, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Caherconnell, 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
Caherconnell
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.03729, -9.12886
SMR number
CL009-041----

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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 low-lying pasture in Eanty Valley, with a shallow NNE–SSW ravine immediately to the E, within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-030001-). Indicated on Robinson’s map of the Burren (1977). This subcircular cashel (int. dims. 25.2m NE–SW; 18.8m NW–SE; ext. dims. 30.8m NE–SW; 25.2m NW–SE) is defined by the grass-covered remains of a double-faced stone wall (Wth 1.2–1.4m; H 0.2–0.6m). The outer wall-face is most visible at NW. Two grass-covered linear mounds of spoil (L c. 6–10m; Wth 2–4m; H c. 0.5m) extend NW–SE across the interior. There is low ill-defined cairn (c. 12m NW–SE; c. 10m NE–SW) in the SW interior. In the NE interior there is an L-shaped linear mound (int. dims. 8m NW–SE; 5m NE–SW) which appears to be spoil rather than the remains of a house or structure.

A cashel (CL009-040003-) and enclosure (CL009-040004-) lie c. 150m to the N.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 19 January 2022

References

Robinson, T. 1977 (revised 1999) The Burren: a two-inch map of the uplands of north-west Clare. Map scale 1:31680. Roundstone: Folding Landscapes.

Nearby in the register

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

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