Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Caherminnaun East,ballykinvarga, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherminnaun East,ballykinvarga
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.99556, -9.19078
- SMR number
- CL009-183----
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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 rise in undulating pasture, within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-). This subcircular cashel (27.4m E-W; 24.2m N-S) is defined from NE to NW by the intermittent remains of a stone wall-face and spill (Wth 6-7m; int. H 0.4-0.8m; ext. H 0.7-1.3m). At the E there is a scarp (H 0.6m) from the interior down to the surviving outer wall-face. From NW to NE the edge of the cashel (L 16m) has been truncated by clearance activity in the adjacent field, creating a scarp (H 0.5m; Wth 3m). A drystone field boundary extends E-W along the top of this scarp. The cashel entrance (Wth 1.2m) is at the SE. It is filled with stone but visible within this rubble are the straight edges of an entrance passage (L 3.2m and 2.8m respectively) which extends into the cashel interior.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 11 July 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.