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Ringfort - cashel

Poulacarran, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Poulacarran, 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
Poulacarran
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.02154, -9.12560
SMR number
CL009-077001-

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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

In rough pasture on a slight rise in the floor of Poulacarran Valley, with quarry-like depressions immediately to S and W. Hachured on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Rectangular enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This subrectangular cashel (23.5m E-W; c. 23m N-S) is defined by a double-faced wall (Wth 1.9m; H 0.3-1.2m), except at S where only a stony bank (Wth 3-3.5m; H 0.3m) is extant. A later drystone wall is built over the cashel perimeter at S and E. In the SW interior there is a relatively large rectangular corral (10m E-W; 6m N-S) defined by the cashel wall at W and S, and a wall (Wth 0.6-1m; H 0.4-0.8m) of loose boulders at N and E. A fulacht fia (CL009-078002-) lies c. 53m to the ENE.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 12 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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