Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballyganner South, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyganner South
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.00161, -9.14753
- SMR number
- CL009-194----
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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 plateau in rough pasture and karst limestone within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-), with the ground sloping steeply down (max. H 10m) c. 35m to the SSE. Hachured on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. This circular cashel (int. dims. 26m N-S; 24.5m E-W) is defined by the overgrown remains of a double-faced wall (Wth 1-2.3m; H 0.5-1.5m) of large horizontally laid stones (1-1.3m; Wth 0.5-0.8m; H 0.2-0.3m). A large gap in the wall (Wth 5m) at the SW appears to have been made by a machine. Another cashel (CL009-059090-) lies c. 35m to the NW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 12 July 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Booley hutunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.