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Ringfort - cashel

Kiltaan, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Kiltaan, 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
Kiltaan
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated (1916)
Coordinates
53.01774, -9.18096
SMR number
CL009-059022-

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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 on a gentle S-facing slope, in pasture within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-). Indicated on the OS 25-inch plan (1897) and the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This circular cashel (c. 26.5m WNW–ESE; 26.3m NNE–SSW) is defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 2–4m; int. H 0.6–1m; ext. H 0.6–0.8m) upon which a later drystone wall (Wth 05.–1m; H 0.6–1m) has been built .The remains of a now heavily overgrown lean-to shed (int. dims. 5m NW–SE; 3.4m NE–SW) are visible in the NE sector of the interior. Known locally as the ‘Moher Ard’. An enclosure (CL009-239----) lies c. 190m to the ESE and a church (CL009-059023-) lies c. 200m to the SSE.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 23 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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