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Ringfort - cashel

Eantybeg North, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Eantybeg North, 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
Eantybeg North
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated (1916)
Coordinates
53.05027, -9.11913
SMR number
CL009-052----

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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

On a promontory in rough pasture within a large multiperiod field system (CL005-160001-); the land drops steeply c. 60 to the W and c. 150m to the S. Indicated 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 (24.1m E–W; 22.8m N–S) is defined by a much-collapsed stone wall (Wth including spread 3.5-4.2m). A later drystone wall (Wth c. 0.5m; H 0.5-0.8m) overlies its outer wall-face (max. H 0.6-1m). No trace of the internal wall-face survives, only the grassed-over stone spread (Wth 3-3.5m) is visible. A gap (Wth 1.2m; min. H 1m) at SE may mark the original entrance. However, a lintel (L 2m; T 0.8m; H 0.15m) over it, along the outer wall-face, does not seem to be substantial enough to be an original one, suggesting that this may be a later construction. The gap is not stone lined and there is no visible passageway through the wall. Another gap (Wth 2m) at NE is modern and a buttress (L 2.2m; Wth 1.6m; H 1.6m) has been built against the outer wall-face at ESE. A modern trackway skirts the cashel from SW to NE. An enclosure (CL009-227----) lies c. 55m to the WSW.

The following image has been uploaded: CL009-052---- view from SE.jpg

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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