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Ringfort - cashel

Meggagh West, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Meggagh West, 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
Meggagh West
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
53.02683, -9.10551
SMR number
CL009-084017-

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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 OS 25-inch plan (1842) and the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This subcircular cashel (ext. dims. 24.1m N-S; 20.1m E-W) is defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 2-3.5m; ext. H 0.5-1m). Intermittent outer wall-facing (H 0.5m) is visible from N to E; it can hardly be traced from S to SW where the wall has fallen completely out. It may survive behind the spill at W. The inner edge of the spread is flush with the interior. A gap (Wth 2m) at W is a later feature. There is a souterrain (CL009-084028-) in the N half of the interior. Field boundaries extend off the cashel at E, SE, SW, W and NW. An enclosure (CL010-249----) lies c. 140m to the NE.

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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