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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
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
53.00350, -9.15722
SMR number
CL009-059076-

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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 slight rise on a S-facing slope, overlooking an E-W valley, in rough pasture and within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-). Hachured on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Named ‘Cathair na mBithiúnach’ on Robinson’s map (1977). This subcircular cashel (ext. dims. 36.3m NE-SW; 34.4m NW-SE) is defined by a much-collapsed double-faced stone wall (Wth c. 2.2-2.6m; int. H 0.6-0.9m; ext. H c. 1.5-2.2m). The inner wall-face and the lower part of the outer wall-face are obscured by collapsed rubble (total Wth 7-10m). The outer wall-face is best preserved from SSW to NW and from NNE to SE, and is composed of large horizontally laid stones forming a flush facade. Two stone piers (W pier L 1.5m; Wth 0.8m; E pier L 2.4m; Wth 1.2m), 5m apart, have been built against the it at NE. These appear to be buttresses for supporting the wall and may post-date the occupation of the site. The interior slopes markedly from NW to SE. A wedge tomb (CL009-059077-) is located at the highest point of the NW quadrant. Another cashel (CL009-059079-) lies c. 76m to the NE and an enclosure (CL009-059078-) lies c. 116m to the NNE. (Westropp 1897, 119-120)

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 8 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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