Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Sheshodonnell West, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sheshodonnell West
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.01263, -9.09616
- SMR number
- CL010-047011-
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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 in rough pasture with limited views, within an extensive, multiperiod field system (CL009-084001-). Indicated on the OS 25-inch plan (1897) and on the later, Cassini edition (1920) of the OS 6-inch map. This poorly preserved subcircular cashel (int. diams. 25m E-W; 20m N-S; ext. dims. 26.5m E-W; 21.5m N-S) is defined by a collapsed wall with low (H 0.1-0.25m) outer wall-face stones visible intermittently. A later field wall is built over the cashel perimeter, and there is a modern square-shaped animal pen at the NNW edge of the very uneven and rocky interior.
See attached image: CL010-047011-_01.JPG Aerial view of site from north-east (Photo. Markus Casey, March, 2007).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 24 February 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.