Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Kiltaan, County Clare, Ireland
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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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 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
- Cross - Market crossunder 1 mi
- Round towerunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.