Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Lismoher, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lismoher
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.00873, -9.17591
- SMR number
- CL009-059033-
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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 gently S-facing slope, in hazel and rough pasture within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-
059001-). Hachured on the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996).
This poorly preserved circular cashel (ext. dims. 19.7m E-W; 18.8m N-S) is defined by a spread of
stones (Wth 4-8m; int. H 0.5-0.8m; ext. H 0.5-1m) on which a later wall has been built from E to SW.
The original outer wall-face is traceable around most of the perimeter, but the inner wall-face
cannot be seen. Later trackways run across the cashel wall at E and W.
An enclosure (CL009-059034-) and a cashel (CL009-059036-) lie c. 50mand 120m to the SE
respectively. A hut site (CL009-242----) lies c. 140m to the WSW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 8 February 2022
References
Record of Monuments and Places as established under Section 12 of the National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, County Clare. Issued by National Monuments and Historic Properties Service 1996. Department of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Cairn - burial cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.