Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cahermackirilla, County Clare, Ireland
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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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 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
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.