Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballyganner North, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyganner North
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.01492, -9.15720
- SMR number
- CL009-063001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a gentle S-facing slope in hazel, bushes and rough pasture within a broad semi-karst plateau. Indicated on the 1897 25-inch plan and the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This subrectangular cashel (46.5m E-W; 38.6m N-S) is defined by a stone spread (Wth 5.5-6.5m; H. 0.6-1m) on the outer edge of which a wall (Wth c. 1.2m; ext. H 1-c. 2.9m) of large stones (L c. 1.2m; H 0.3m) has been built. The wall face is battered (Bowmer 2019, 64, 67, 69) and there is a vertical construction seam at the centre of the S side. In the W interior there is a souterrain (CL009-063002-) and in the SW corner there are house foundations (CL009-063003-).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 4 April 2022
References
Bowmer, T. 2019 Rectilinear drystone cashel and enclosure settlements in the Burren, Co. Clare. The Journal of Irish Archaeology 28, 59–84.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.