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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
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
53.02404, -9.10882
SMR number
CL009-084016-

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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

Near the W edge of a plateau, in rough pasture within a multiperiod field system (CL009-084001-). Hachured on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This almost circular cashel (ext. dims. 33.4m N-S; 32.6m E-W) is defined by a wide stone spread (Wth 6-12m; int. H 0.5-0.6m; ext. H 0.2-2.5m) that has been partly rebuilt as a strong double-faced wall between W and NNE and as a drystone wall, now collapsed, between NNE and SE. This wall is broken out between SE and W. The outer wall-face of the original cashel wall is visible most of the way round. A gap at NNE is modern. The interior slopes steeply from N towards the centre of the site. There is a house site (CL009-084027-) in the NW quadrant. Two small enclosures/pens, defined by drystone wall, are visible to its S. There are two hut sites (CL009-084020- and CL009-084026-) c. 42m to the ENE and c. 35m to the WSW respectively and a house site (CL009-084029-) c. 55m to the SSE. An enclosure (CL009-084014-) lies c. 100m to the SW.

The following image has been uploaded: CL009-084016-_01.jpg View from W

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 29 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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