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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
53.00104, -9.18892
SMR number
CL009-059017-

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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 N-facing slope in rough pasture within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-). Hachured on the OS 25-inch plan (1897) and the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This almost circular cashel (ext. dims. 27.9m E–W; 27.4m N–S) is defined by the denuded remains of a stone wall (Wth c. 3m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.3–1.2m). The lower course of the outer wall-face (max. H 0.4m) is traceable around most of the perimeter, surviving best at W and N. It is not visible from NE to E and between E and S, due to robbing of the wall spread, the blocks (max. L 1.3m; max. Wth 0.5m; H. 0.6–0.9m) of this face are now visible at the base of a scarp (H 0.8m). A later field wall has been built over the wall at S. A subrectangular structure (CL009-059102-) is visible in the NW sector of the interior. Another cashel (CL009-214----) lies c. 171m to the SW and an enclosure (CL009-059016-) lies c. 193m to the SSW.

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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