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Ringfort - cashel

Carran, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Carran, 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
Carran
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
53.01926, -9.13161
SMR number
CL009-074002-

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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 edge of a plateau, in rough pasture and bushes within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-074001-), with land immediately to N-NE sloping into Poulacarran Valley. Hachured on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Referred to by Westropp (1898, 359) as a ‘coarsely built, much dilapidated irregular caher’. This perhaps subcircular cashel (diam. c. 28m ENE-WSW) has been partly levelled; only its S half is extant. It is defined by a scarp (Wth at S 3.4m; H 1.6m) from E to SW. Scant remains of an outer wall-face are traceable from E to SW. A later drystone wall is built over this (combined H 1m) from S to SW. A cashel (CL009-219----) lies c. 77m to the SE.

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

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

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