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Ringfort - cashel

Ballygoonaun, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Ballygoonaun, 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
Ballygoonaun
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
52.99673, -9.23178
SMR number
CL009-182----

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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 E end of a low E-W ridge, in low-lying pasture within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-). Partially indicated on the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This very poorly preserved subcircular cashel (c. 37m E-W; c. 32m N-S) is defined by the very fragmentary and denuded remains of a well-built stone wall, the outer face of which is intermittently traceable from E to SSW. More than one wall course (max. ext. H c. 0.5m) survives between SE and SW. A N-S road has truncated the W perimeter of the site. The interior slopes to the S and SE. Two other cashels (CL009-181---- and CL009-087----) lie c. 100m to the NW and c. 153m to the SW respectively.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 5 May 2022

Nearby in the register

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

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