Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Fanygalvan, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fanygalvan
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.01254, -9.11009
- SMR number
- CL009-121----
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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 flat-topped knoll of rock outcrop, covered in trees and bushes and rising c. 2-4m from the undulating floor of a small circular valley in reclaimed pasture. Hachured on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. This hazel-covered suboval cashel (ext. dims. 27m NW-SE; 22m NE-SW) is defined by a stone spread (Wth 2.2-2.7m; ext. H 1.4-1.6m), except in the E sector. The external wall-face, constructed of horizontally laid stones, is visible and in places is overlain by a later drystone wall. The E sector is defied by a single boulder wall, which may be a later feature. The outcropping rock in the interior rises c. 1m above the stone spread.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 17 June 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.