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Ringfort - cashel

Clooneen (Corcomroe By.), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Clooneen, 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
Clooneen (Corcomroe By.)
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated (1916)
Coordinates
52.99370, -9.15188
SMR number
CL009-059083-

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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

Near the bottom of a S-facing slope, with restricted views, in rough pasture within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-). Indicated on the OS 25-inch plan (1897) and 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This rectangular cashel (30.5m ENE-WSW; 29.75m NNW-SSE) is defined by a double-faced stone wall (Wth at E 2.3m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.8m) with rounded corners. The flush outer wall-face, composed of quite large horizontally laid stones (L c. 0.5m; Wth 0.5m; H 0.2m), is absent at the W end of the S side. A later drystone wall (H c. 0.6m) is built over the outer wall-face. The inner wall-face is only traceable on the E side. There is a spread of rubble (H 0.5m; total Wth 4.4-6.6m) against the inner and outer wall-faces. A possible entrance (Wth 2.7m) lies at the S end of the E wall, defined by two lines through the wall rubble. There are two houses within the cashel interior: one (CL009-059112-) against the W side, and another (CL009-059113-) in the SE corner.

Another cashel (CL009-059081-) lies c. 74m to the NW.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 30 March 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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