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Ringfort - cashel

Sheshymore, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Sheshymore, 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
Sheshymore
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
53.00404, -9.12718
SMR number
CL009-110----

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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

At the edge of a plateau with a steep slope/cliff to the NE and E, and overlooking a turlough basin labelled ‘Loch an Líongáin’ on Robinson’s map (1977). Hachured on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. This poorly preserved almost circular cashel (ext. dims. 27m N-S; 26.6m E-W) is defined by the scant remains of a stone wall (Wth 1.6m at S; H 0.2-1.2m), mainly the outer wall-face which survives up to two courses high in places. It is heavily overgrown with blackthorn bushes and briars. There is some stone spill outside (Wth 1-3.7m; H 0.4-1.4m) the wall but very little inside it. There is a souterrain (CL009-110002-) in the SE quadrant of the interior. An enclosure (CL009-243----) lies c. 125m to the WSW.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 13 June 2022

References

Robinson, T. 1977 (revised 1999) The Burren: a two-inch map of the uplands of north-west Clare. Map scale 1:31680. Roundstone: Folding Landscapes.

Nearby in the register

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

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