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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
Caheraneden
Latest-edition OS map
Caheraneden (1916)
Coordinates
53.00602, -9.16200
SMR number
CL009-059066-

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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

At the edge of a plateau within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-), in an area that is overgrown with hazel and blackthorn; the ground falls steeply into a ravine (max. D c. 10m) to the W and N. Hachured and named ‘Caheraneden’ on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Named ‘Cathair an Éadain’ on Robinson’s map (1977). Westropp (1897, 119) attests that this name derives from its location at the edge of a ravine.
This subcircular cashel (ext. dims. 32.7m E-W; 30.5m N-S) is defined by a double-faced stone wall (Wth c. 1.9-3.1m; int. H 0.3-0.6m; ext. H 0.8-1m). The outer wall-face is visible all around and is composed of large stones laid horizontally. The inner wall-face and most of the lower part of the outer wall-face are covered with rubble (total Wth 6-8m). At W a drystone wall is built on the original outer wall-face. Half of the interior is overgrown with blackthorn. A megalithic structure (CL009-059068-) lies c. 22m to the E and there is a court tomb (CL009-059063-) c. 85m to the WNW.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 7 April 2022

References

Westropp, T.J. 1897 Prehistoric stone forts of northern Clare, part III. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries 27, 116-27.

Robinson, T. 1977 (revised 1999) The Burren: a two-inch map of the uplands of north-west Clare. Map scale 1:31680. Roundstone: Folding Landscapes.

Nearby in the register

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

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