Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballykinvarga, County Clare, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.