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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
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.99688, -9.18799
SMR number
CL009-205----

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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 knoll in undulating pasture within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-). This subrectangular cashel (34.9m NW-SE; 32.4m NE-SW) is defined by a wall-face (H 0.4-0.8m) surviving to two courses backed by grass-covered stone packing/spill (total Wth 1-1.9m). The top of the wall-face is generally flush with the level interior. The SW quadrant of the cashel appears to have been altered. Extending from the cashel interior here is a subrectangular area (10m NW-SE; 5-9m NE-SW) defined at E and W by low grass-covered stone walls. This area appears to have been incorporated into the cashel, as there is no evidence of the original line of the cashel wall here. Several low grass-covered collapsed walls traverse and radiate from the cashel.

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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