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Ringfort - cashel

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

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Ballyconry, 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)
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
53.03368, -9.07567
SMR number
CL010-017----

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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 the E-facing slope of a ridge in improved pasture with good views over lower ground NE-E-S and sheltered by higher ground to W. Indicated on the first edition (1840) and hachured on the later, Cassini edition (1916) of the OS 6-inch map. Also hachured on the intervening OS 25-inch plan (1890s) where it is shown traversed by a wide footpath (Wth c. 2m) leading from the main road to the W to a spring well c. 250m to the ESE. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996).
A subcircular area (ext. diams. 38m N-S; 34.5m E-W; int. diams 32m N-S; 27m E-W) is defined by overgrown walling which is best preserved at N (Wth 1.1-1.65m) but mainly reduced to an earth and stone bank (av. Wth 4m; int. H 0.6m) elsewhere. Intermittent outer wall facing (H 0.5-0.7m) is best preserved NE-ENE. The enclosing element has been robbed out from E-ESE, and survives as a bank of loose stone (Wth 2.7m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H c. 1.2m) in the S. The interior is lower in the W where it is dug into the ridge side (D c. 1.5m), and slopes down towards the E elsewhere.

See attachment: CL010-017----_01 Aerial view of monument from N (Markus Casey, 2007).

Summary by: Gearóid Conroy and Lynda McCormack

Date of upload: 13 December 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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