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Ringfort - cashel

Cahermackirilla, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Cahermackirilla, 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
Cahermackirilla
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.02827, -9.12160
SMR number
CL009-050----

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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 scrubland on the N side of the floor of Poulacarran valley. Listed as ‘Potential site – aerial photo’ in the RMP (1996). This rectangular cashel (45m ENE–WSW; 33.4m NNW–SSE) is defined by double-faced stone walls (Wth 1m; max. H at N 4m; H at S 1m) made of large horizontally laid stones. A later drystone field boundary overlies the E side. A stone spread (Wth c. 1.5–2m) is visible at the base of the wall internally. Outside the SE corner a more extensive stone spread (Wth c. 6.5m) is probably due to the more recent collapse of a higher section of the wall. The interior is overgrown with ferns and grass. The remains of a structure (CL009-050001-) lie in the NW corner.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 27 January 2022

Nearby in the register

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

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