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Ringfort - cashel

Iskancullin, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Iskancullin, 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
Iskancullin
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.02290, -9.13881
SMR number
CL009-070001-

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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

At the E edge of a plateau, with land sloping gently to E and S and wide views E-SW. In rough pasture and karst limestone, within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-032001-). Hachured on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This small subcircular cashel (c. 22.5m N-S; 21.25m E-W) is defined by a stony bank (Wth 3.5-5.7m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H. 0.6m) with a roughly vertical outer wall-face (H 0.2-1.2m) visible at NE-WNW. There is a souterrain (CL009-070002-) in the NE interior, adjacent to the cashel wall.

A later rectangular drystone structure (5m NNW-SSE; 3.5m ENE-WSW) is built over the cashel exterior at W, its ENE wall (H 2m) probably overlying the outer wall-face of the cashel. There are three lintelled alcoves at the base of this later wall, with square openings (Wth c. 0.5m; H 0.5) but widening inside (D 1.7m). Immediately to the N of this later structure is a modern gap (Wth 3m) in the cashel perimeter. About 5m to the N of the cashel is a small stone clearance mound (diam. 5m; H 0.4m) overgrown with vegetation.

An enclosure (CL009-071----) lies c. 186m to the NE.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 6 April 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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