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
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.00042, -9.14397
- SMR number
- CL009-195----
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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 W-facing slope in rough pasture and karst limestone within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-). Indicated on the 1897 OS 25-inch plan and 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This small circular cashel (21.7m N-S; 20.9m E-W) is defined by a double-faced wall (Wth 1m at W; H c. 0.5-0.7m) and associated stone tumble (total Wth 3-4.3m). Grass-covered field walls abut the cashel at the E and SW. There is a gap (Wth 4.5m) in the wall at WNW-NW, which probably post-dates the original occupation of the cashel. Outside this gap is a later small rectangular enclosure (c. 8m NW-SE; c. 6m NE-SW). There is an enclosure (CL009-246----) c. 94m to the SE.
The following image has been uploaded:
CL009-195----_01.jpg Aerial view from N (SMR file)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 12 July 2022
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
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- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.