Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Caherminnaun East, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherminnaun East
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.99371, -9.18884
- SMR number
- CL009-059018-
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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
In pasture at the S edge of an undulating plateau sloping to E and S, within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-). Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP. This subrectangular cashel (ext. dims. 29.6m N–S; 29.4m E–W) is defined by a stone spread (Wth c. 5–6m; int. H 1m; ext. H 0.5–0.6m), some of which appears to be modern field clearance. A drystone wall has been built on top of it. The E side (Wth c. 2m; H 1m) of the latter wall is more substantial than the others, which are of more flimsy construction (Wth c. 0.8m; H c. 0.6m). At SE the stone spread has been relatively recently modified into a platform (L. 6m; Wth 3m; max. H 1m). An enclosure (CL009-059011-) lies c. 190m to the W.
The following image has been uploaded: CL009-059018- view from N.jpg
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 22 March 2022
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.