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Ringfort - cashel

Maryville, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Maryville, 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
Maryville
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
52.99444, -9.20742
SMR number
CL009-095----

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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

On gently undulating ground in rough pasture within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-). Hachured on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Described by Westropp (1915, 263) as ‘the lowest courses of a well built ring wall … of excellent masonry.’ This very poorly preserved subcircular cashel (int. dims. 24.5m E-W; 23m N-S) is defined by a double-faced stone wall (Wth 2m; int. H 0.15-0.3m; ext. H 0.2-0.4m) from ENE to ESE, a low scarp (H 0.4m) from ESE to W, and a low grassed-over stone spread (Wth 2.4m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.2m) from W to ENE. Inner wall-facing is visible between W and NW. A series of narrow terraces (Wth c. 2m; H c. 0.5m) to the SW of the cashel are the result of quarrying.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 25 May 2022

References

Westropp, T.J. 1915 Prehistoric remains (forts and dolmens) in Burren and its south western border, Co. Clare. Part 12: North Western Part. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 5, 45-62, 249-74.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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