Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Eantybeg North, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eantybeg North
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Caherlissaniska
- Latest-edition OS map
- Caherlissaniska (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.04552, -9.12427
- SMR number
- CL009-045----
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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 a karst knoll under thin grass cover at the edge of a plateau, within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-030001-), with land to E sloping almost vertically (H c. 15m) into a valley, and also sloping very steeply to S. Hachured and named ‘Caherlissaniska’ on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Labelled ‘Cathair Lios an Uisce’ on Robinson’s (1977) map. This suboval cashel (28.2m N–S; 22.9m E–W) is defined by a stone wall (Wth 1.7–2m; H 1–2m). The outer wall-face is visible, while a bank of stone (Wth c. 1.5–2.1m; H 0.6–1m) rests against and now mostly obscures the wall’s inner face (Westropp 1911, 356). The outer wall-face is generally ‘of good, coarse work’ (ibid.), with a vertical join at SW. A later drystone wall is built on top of the outer wall-face of the cashel.
The entrance (ext. Wth 1.3m) lies at the SSW, and narrows toward the cashel interior. Westropp (ibid., 357) estimated the gateway’s height (1.8m), described the east pier of the entrance as still intact, and recorded its probable lintel (L c. 2m; H 0.9m; T 0.13–0.15m) lying on the ground at the entrance. Westropp (ibid.) also mentions an unlined gap—not visible during an inspection in 1998—in the N of the cashel wall, providing access to the adjoining annexe enclosure (CL009-045002-).
Adjacent to the cashel at the SW are the walls of a possible coeval field (c. 21m N–Sm; c. 17m E–W), in the SW corner of which lies a hut site (CL009-045003-). A megalithic structure (CL009-045004-) lies c. 52m to the N of the cashel. A cashel (CL009-049----) lies c. 216m to the ENE and another cashel (CL009-169----) lies c. 255m to the WSW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 25 January 2022
References
Westropp, T.J. 1911 Prehistoric remains (forts and dolments) in the Burren, Co. Clare (continued). Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 1, 343-67.
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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.