Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballyganner North, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyganner North
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ancient Dwelling (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.00467, -9.16917
- SMR number
- CL009-059057-
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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 the gentle S-facing slope of a plateau in rough pasture, at the W edge of a NW-SE ravine, within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-). Indicated on the 1897 OS 25-inch plan and the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This subrectangular cashel (33m N-S; 30.5m E-W) is defined by a moss-covered collapsed stone wall (max. Wth 3m) on which is built a drystone wall (Wth at N 1.5m; int. H 0.5-1.2m; max. ext. H at N 1.7m). The N wall curves outward (i.e., to N), and the NE corner is rounded where it skirts the edge of the ravine.
An irregular structure (CL009-059125-) named ‘Ancient Dwelling’ on the 1920 OS 6-inch map is built against the E wall in the cashel interior. There is a possible house site (CL009-059126-) in the SW corner and a small cairn lies against the S wall.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 15 February 2022
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.