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Ringfort - cashel

Ballykinvarga, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Ballykinvarga, 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
Ballykinvarga
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
52.99896, -9.19353
SMR number
CL009-201----

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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

On a gentle N-facing slope in rough pasture within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-). Partly outlined on the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This subrectangular cashel (int. dims. 25m NNW-SSE; 23.7m ENE-WSW; ext. dims. 34m NNW-SSE; 29.6m ENE-WSW) is defined by a different enclosing element on each side. At the W is a double-faced wall (Wth 1.8m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.7m). At the S there is a wide bank of grass-covered stones (Wth 5.8m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 0.4m). A probable later drystone wall (H 1.4m) defines the N perimeter, with material accumulated against its inner face. At the E there is also a probable later drystone wall (ext. H 1.2m) backing on to an accumulation of material, which appears to have a double-faced wall (est. Wth c. 2.3m; H c. 0.5m) at its core. The level raised area of the cashel interior continues c. 2.2m to the E of this wall, before terminating at a NNW-SSE scarp (H 0.6m; Wth 0.8m). Another cashel (CL009-202----) lies c. 80m to the NE. Ballykinvarga cashel (CL009-059012-) lies c. 153m to the SE.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 13 July 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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