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Ringfort - cashel

Ballykinvarga, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Ballykinvarga, 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
Ballykinvarga
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
52.99814, -9.19054
SMR number
CL009-059015-

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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 slight rise in undulating pasture within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-), with slightly higher ground to the E. Hachured on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. This circular cashel (29.7m E–W; 28.8m N–S) is defined by a denuded stone wall (Wth 4–5.7m; Wth at E 2.6m; int. H 0–0.4m). A later drystone wall (max. H 1m) is built on the barely traceable outer wall-face. An animal gap is visible at ESE. Another gap (Wth c. 5m) at SW accesses a subrectangular stone annexe (int. dims. 5.8m NW–SE; 5.7m NE–SW), which is defined by a collapsed and grassed-covered wall (Wth 1.5–2m); it slopes to the SW. The annexe appears to be associated with later use of the site. In the cashel interior there are several collapsed field walls (Wth 2–2.5m; H 0.5m), which are probably remnants of a field system that post-date it. A standing stone (CL009-059100-) lies c. 63m to the SSW and the well-known cashel ‘Caherballykinvarga’ (CL009-059012-) lies c. 66m to the SW.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 22 March 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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