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Ringfort - cashel

Cahermackirilla, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Cahermackirilla, 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
Cahermackirilla
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
53.02066, -9.11323
SMR number
CL009-084005-

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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 a slight fold at the bottom of a N-facing slope, in rough pasture. Hachured on the OS 25-inch plan (1897) and 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP. This subcircular cashel (20.7m E-W; 20.3m N-S) is defined by a double-faced stone wall (Wth 2.2-3.3m; int. H max. 0.6m; ext. H 1m). Stone spill (Wth. 3.3-4.6m; H max. 0.6m) around the edge of the interior obscures the inner wall-face. A later drystone wall is built over the outer wall-face from W to N. Later drystone structures are built on the wall and the stone spill of the perimeter at SE-SW. Two modern rectangular drystone structures are built against the outer wall-face at N and E. The structure at N (int. dims. 7m E-W; 3.25m N-S) has a double-faced wall (H max. 1.5m). The E structure (int. dims. 5m N-S; 1.7m E-W; H max. 1.4m) is more dilapidated, but with a doorway and cupboard in its E wall. A hut site (CL009-084030-) lies c. 81m to the SE and an enclosure (CL009-084011-) lies c. 85m to the NNE.

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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