Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Carran, County Clare, Ireland
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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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 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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.