Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballygoonaun, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygoonaun
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.99720, -9.23342
- SMR number
- CL009-181----
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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
On a low E-W ridge with a slight dip to the N, in flat low-lying pasture, within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-). This very poorly preserved subrectangular cashel (32m N-S) is defined by a grassed-over wall (H c. 0.3-0.4m) from NW to E to S; outer wall-facing is visible intermittently. A NW-SE running field boundary cuts across it from NW to S and no visible surface trace survives to the W of the wall. Two other cashels (CL009-182---- and CL009-087----) lie c. 100m to the SE and c. 135m to the SSW respectively.
The following image has been uploaded: CL009-181----_01.jpg View from SE
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 5 May 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Rock scribing - folk artunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.