Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Fanygalvan, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fanygalvan
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.01582, -9.10381
- SMR number
- CL010-047003-
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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
In a slight hollow with limited visibility, in high (between the 400’ and 500’ contours) rough grazing and within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL009-084001-). Indicated on both the first edition (1842) and later, Cassini edition (1920) of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This subcircular cashel (int. diams. 28m E-W; 23m N-S) is defined by a wide, stony bank (Wth 2-4m; H 0.6-0.8m) upon which a later field wall is built. The interior is generally flat, with a small, oval-shaped livestock pen (int. diams. 3m NE-SW; 2m NW-SE) against the NW perimeter. This may be built on an earlier hut site. Immediately outside the cashel at NW is a hut site (CL010-047016-) and field walls radiate off the cashel at E, W and N. There is an enclosure (CL010-047004-) c. 87m to the NNE.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 21 February 2023
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.