Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cahergrillaun, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahergrillaun
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.03579, -9.10569
- SMR number
- CL009-058----
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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 knoll near the top of a W-facing slope in pasture at the E side of Eanty Valley. The land falls away to the W and N. Indicated on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This subcircular cashel (int. dims. 17.2m E–W; 16.5m N–S) is defined by the remains of a double-faced stone wall (Wth c. 1.5–2.5m; H c. 0.3m). The interior slopes from NW to SE. There is a souterrain (CL009-058002-) just N of the centre of the interior. A small earthen mound (H 0.2m) is visible to its S.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 1 March 2022
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.