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Ringfort - cashel

Ballyconry (Burren By., Carron ED),Castletown (Burren By.), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Ballyconry, Castletown, 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
Ballyconry (Burren By., Carron ED),Castletown (Burren By.)
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.03168, -9.07848
SMR number
CL010-015002-

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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

Abutting the S limits of a large, prehistoric enclosure (CL010-015001-) on the SE-facing slopes of a steep-sided, N-S ridge in rough pasture and limestone pavement, and containing a souterrain (CL010-015003-) which incorporates a natural cave (CL010-015004-). All lie within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL009-084001-). Indicated on the 1840 and 1916 editions of the OS 6-inch map.
A subcircular area (max. ext. diams. c. 35m NW-SE; c. 33m NE-SW; int. diams) is defined by a faint bank which is overlain by a later, drystone wall (T 0.5-0.7m) which acts as a townland boundary wall NNE-E-S. The interior slopes to the S and SE and is level in the SE sector which contains some clearance cairns.
The site was recorded as ‘C-170’ by Gibson (2007, 2) who noted that the wall ‘rests upon the rubble and standing sections of an earlier, thicker wall of coursed construction’ and that the presence of a souterrain (CL010-015003-) ‘indicates a potential Early-Medieval date’ for the monument.

Summary by: Gearóid Conroy and Lynda McCormack

Date of upload: 9 December 2022

References

Gibson, B. 2007 The hillslope enclosures of the Burren, Co. Clare. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 107C, 1-29.

Nearby in the register

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

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