Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballykinvarga, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballykinvarga
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.99954, -9.19237
- SMR number
- CL009-202----
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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 gentle N-facing slope in rough pasture, within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-). This circular cashel (int. dims. 25m NNW-SSE; 23.7m ENE-WSW; ext. dims. 34m NNW-SSE; 29.6m ENE-WSW) is defined by the remains of a stone wall (Wth 2m at N; max. int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.6-1.4m), visible intermittently all around. Later drystone walls are built over the perimeter at the SW and NE. Other cashels (CL009-059014-; CL009-201----) lie c. 68m to the NE and c. 80m to the SW respectively. Ballykinvarga cashel (CL009-059012-) lies c. 185m to the S.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 13 July 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.