Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Eantybeg North, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eantybeg North
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.04447, -9.12810
- SMR number
- CL009-169----
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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 bottom of a S-facing slope, in rough pasture within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-030001-). This very poorly preserved subcircular cashel (31.7m N-S; 24.5m E-W) is defined by the denuded footing of a stone wall (H 0.5-0.7m; Wth 1.2-1.8m). There is an entrance (Wth 2.6m) at the SSW. This entrance was later narrowed to 0.8m, by filling in its E side with stones. A large lintel-like slab (L 1.3m; Wth 0.4m; T 0.2m) lies on the ground surface c. 2m to the W of the entrance. There is a modern entrance gap at the S. The cashel interior is slightly domed, rising 0.3-0.7m over the wall-footing on most sides, but higher (1.6m) at N-SE where the slope is steeper.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 6 July 2022
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.