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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
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.04647, -9.11312
SMR number
CL009-053018-

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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 gentle SE-facing slope in pasture, within a large multiperiod field system (CL005-160001-), c. 20m to the NW of a ravine. Noted on OSi aerial imagery dated 2000. This poorly preserved roughly D-shaped cashel (ext. dims. 24.3m N–S; 23.8m E–W), with the straight side at N (L c. 21m), is defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 3–5m; max. int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.4–1m); the outer edge stones are traceable along the S, W and N sides. The S side (Wth c. 1.5m) is narrower than the others. The original wall width (2.1m) could be determined at the N end of the W side. A drystone wall overlies the perimeter of the N side and traces of another old drystone wall, running N-S, overlie the E side. Grykes are visible outside the cashel, running parallel to the W and N walls. Enclosures lie c. 28m to the SSW (CL009-230----), c. 96m to the S (CL009-231----) and c. 146m to the NNE (CL009-053009-). A cashel (CL009-053003-) lies c. 187m to the NW.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 2 February 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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