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Ringfort - cashel

Meggagh West, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Meggagh West, 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
Meggagh West
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
53.02875, -9.10849
SMR number
CL009-056----

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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 a pocket of dense scrub surrounded by reclaimed pastureland; the land rises steeply c. 60m to the NW. Hachured on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map and recorded by Westropp (1898, 363) as ‘one of two concentric rings round a rock dome’. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This subcircular cashel (max. ext. dim. 41.3m N–S) is defined by a levelled and reinforced plug of rock outcrop (13m.3m E-W; 13m N-S), which is surrounded by a double-faced outer wall (Wth 1.2–2m; int. H 1–1.8m; ext. H 1–1.4m) with an intervening fosse (max. Wth 9.6-11m). The stone facing (H 2–2.2m) around the central plug has mostly fallen onto the inner side of the surrounding fosse where it has formed a berm (Wth 2.8; H 1m), but the facing is intact from E to SW. Where clear of collapse, the fosse is round bottomed and smooth. Another cashel (CL009-173----) lies c. 75m to WSW.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 3 February 2022

References

Westropp, T.J. 1898 Prehistoric remains in the Burren, County Clare (Carran and Kilcorney). The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 28, 352-66.

Nearby in the register

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

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