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Ringfort - cashel

Eanty More, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Eanty More, 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
Eanty More
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
53.04807, -9.11489
SMR number
CL009-053003-

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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

At the W edge of a karst plateau in rough pasture, within a large multiperiod field system (CL005-160001-). There is a steep ravine c. 45m to the W. Hachured 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 circular cashel (ext. diam. 25.6m N–S) is defined by a double-faced stone wall (Wth at W 1.6m). The outer wall-face is well preserved and is visible almost all the way around; it is best preserved from NW to NNE and at NE (H 0.8-1.6m). Some spill (Wth 1.5–2m; H 0.6m) is visible against it. Apart from a section at W, little of the inner wall-face survives. A more substantial stone spread (Wth 2–3m; H. 0.2–0.4m) extends off it. A gap (Wth 2m) at SE may be modern as it is not stone lined. There are no internal features, other than a NNE-SSW running gryke (L 6m; Wth 1m; max. D 0.6m) which is located just NW of the centre. It is filled with grass-covered loose stones. Field walls extend off the cashel at NNW and N and another field wall skirts around it from E to S. Other cashels lie c. 98m to the NNE (CL009-053007-) and c. 187m to the SE (CL009-053018-). An enclosure (CL053009-) lies c. 155m to the ESE.

The following image has been uploaded: CL009-053003- view from E.jpg

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 28 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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