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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
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.01492, -9.15720
SMR number
CL009-063001-

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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 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

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

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