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Ringfort - cashel

Carran, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Carran, 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
Carran
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
53.01212, -9.13799
SMR number
CL009-106002-

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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 a rise sloping gently in all directions except to the SW, in an area of hazel and scrub with a gryke (Wth c. 10m; D c. 1-2m) extending N-S immediately to the W. Hachured on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. This subcircular cashel (ext. dims. 29.6m N-S; 27.15m E-W) was constructed of a double-faced stone wall (Wth at E 1.6m) that subsequently collapsed resulting in the present extensive stone spread (Wth 5.5-7m; int. H c. 0.4-0.5m; ext. H 1-1.6m) that defines it. The outer wall-face, which was probably rebuilt, is clearly visible from SSW to SW and from W to NNW, with short sections at NNE, NE and E. The inner wall-face survives at E. A lintelled entranceway (Wth 1.15m) at S had collapsed by the 1930s when noted by Wallace (1933, 248). The interior rises to a stony circular mound (diam. 8-10.4m; H 1.3m) at N, on top of which there is a modern ring of loose stones that may be the ‘hut sites’ referred to by Wallace (ibid.). Just to the SE of the mound there is a possible souterrain (CL009-106004-). An old wall runs from it to the wall spread. Another cashel (CL009-106001-) lies c. 30m to the W.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 10 June 2022

References

Wallace, Mr. 1933 Doorway in stone fort at Carran, Co. Clare. Journal of the Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 3, 247-8.

Nearby in the register

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

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