Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Meggagh West, County Clare, Ireland
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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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
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.