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Ringfort - cashel

Ballyganner North, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Ballyganner North, 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
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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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 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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