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Ringfort - cashel

Poulacarran, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Poulacarran, 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
Poulacarran
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
53.01810, -9.12876
SMR number
CL009-256----

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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

Within a field system (CL009-074001-) stretching c. 800m S from close to Carran Church (CL009-075001-). A possible square cashel (c. 38m E-W; c. 38m N-S) visible on Digital Globe (2011-2013) defined by a stone wall, 3-4m broad at the SE corner, grass-covered elsewhere with a later field wall along the W side. The NW corner is enclosed internally. A similar-sized square enclosure is adjoining at the S (c. 37m N-S; c. 35m E-W) and a possible subrectangular enclosure is adjoining to the N (c. 42m N-S; c. 40m E-W). These may represent 'ladder' fields rather than a cashel proper. The S enclosure appears to have been built across an earlier field wall that extends across the enclosure diagonally from E to S. Another possible cashel (CL009-219----) lies c. 85m to the NW.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 6 Septembe 2021

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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