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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
52.99427, -9.16144
SMR number
CL009-059071-

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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 W-facing slope in rough pasture within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-). Hachured on the OS 25-inch plan (1897) and 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Described by Westropp (1915, 265) as a ‘nearly levelled cathair’ coarsely built of large blocks.
This almost circular cashel (ext. dims. 29.5m N-S; 28.4m E-W) is defined by a stone spread (Wth 9-11m) but traces of the much-denuded remains of the double-faced stone wall (Wth c. 2-2.2m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.6-1.3m) survive. The inner wall-face is evident at N and E and the outer wall-face survives from ENE to SW, usually as a single course of large stones laid horizontally. At N a step of rock outcrop (H c. 0.4m) has been incorporated into the line of the wall. A drystone wall (H 1.2-1.3m; Wth 0.6m) overlies it from WSW to N. A large relatively modern gap (Wth 7.5m) between NNE and ENE allows access to the road to E. Another cashel (CL009-059070-) lies c. 45m to the SSW and a wedge tomb (CL009-059072-) lies c. 85m to the N.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 8 April 2022

References

Westropp, T.J. 1915 Prehistoric remains (forts and dolmens) in Burren and its south western border, Co. Clare. Part 12: North Western Part. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 5, 45-62, 249-74.

Nearby in the register

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

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