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Ringfort - cashel

Ballyganner South, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Ballyganner South, 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 South
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
52.99763, -9.16288
SMR number
CL009-059064-

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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 NW-facing slope in pasture within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-). Hachured on the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This subcircular cashel (ext. dims. 38.5m SW-NE; 37.2m NW-SE) is defined by a much-collapsed double-faced stone wall (Wth 2.2m; max. ext. H 2-2.4m). The wall spread (Wth 6-11m) is widest on the downslope from W to N. The outer wall-face is visible all round and is made of large horizontally laid stones (L c. 1m; H c. 0.3m); a later drystone wall has been built on top of it from N to SE. Only a short stretch (L 4m) of the inner wall-face survives to the S of the now blocked-up entrance gap (Wth c. 1.6m) at NE. Within the interior are the remains of a possible 16th/17th-century house site (CL009-059107-) at N and a tower house (CL009-059065-) at SSE. Two possible internal divisions, one within the other, are visible in the W half, though it is unclear whether the inner one is spoil resulting from more recent digging of the interior. The outer one is more definite and is defined by a bank (L c. 15m N-S; Wth 1.5m; H 0.3m). A passageway (L 6m; Wth 2m) extends off the entrance gap to the ENE. It is defined by a drystone wall to the N and wall foundations to the S. It leads to the remains of three houses (see CL009-059108-, CL009-059109- and CL009-059110-). (Westropp 1897, 119; Ua Croinin and Breen 1997; FitzPatrick 2009, 302)

The following image has been uploaded: CL009-059064-_01.jpg View from SE

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 5 April 2022

References

Westropp, T.J. 1898 Prehistoric remains in the Burren, County Clare (Carran and Kilcorney). The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 28, 352-66.

Ua Cróinín, R. and Breen, M. 1997 The castles and tower-houses of Co. Clare, 6 vols. Unpublished report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.

FitzPatrick, E. 2009 Native enclosed settlement and the problem of the Irish 'ring-fort'. Medieval Archaeology 53, 271–307.

Nearby in the register

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

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