Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Poulcaragharush, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Poulcaragharush
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.02501, -9.13386
- SMR number
- CL009-073----
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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
At the S edge of a plateau, in rough pasture and bushes within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-032001-), with land immediately to S falling steeply into Poulacarran Valley. Hachured on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Possibly referred to by Westropp (1898, 362) as a ‘finely-built but dilapidated ring wall’. This heavily overgrown subcircular cashel (c. 35m NE-SW; c. 30m NW-SE) is defined by a wall (H 0.4-1.4m) of horizontally laid stones, with stone spill against the wall exterior (Wth 3m; H 1m) and interior (Wth 2m; H 0.4m) at W.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 6 April 2022
References
Westropp, T.J. 1898 Prehistoric remains in the Burren, County Clare (Carran and Kilcorney). The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 28, 352-66.
Nearby in the register
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.