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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
Indicated (1916)
Coordinates
53.00192, -9.14826
SMR number
CL009-059090-

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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 gentle S-facing slope with a doline c. 35m to the SW, in rough pasture and karst limestone within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-). Indicated on the OS 25-inch plan (1897) and the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure (possible)’ in the RMP (1996). This subcircular cashel (25.3m N-S; 24.6m E-W) is defined by a double-faced stone wall or earthen bank with a stone facing (Wth 0.8-1.3m; int. H 0.2-0.5m; ext. H 0.7-2m). The wall has an almost right-angled corner at NW. The wall-faces are well made, with that on the exterior incorporating large horizontally laid stones. Westropp (1901, 289) may have referred to this cashel as a ‘well-built caher with gapped walls’. Within the raised interior there are two cells—one (4.5m E-W; 3m N-S) at N and the other (6.5m E-W; 6m N-S) at S—defined by loose stones.

Another cashel (CL009-194----) lies c. 35m to the SE and an enclosure (CL009-059088-) lies c. 102m to the WNW.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 30 March 2022

References

Westropp, T.J 1901 Prehistoric remains in north-western Clare part II. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 31, 273-91.

Nearby in the register

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

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