Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Poulaphuca (Castletown ED), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Poulaphuca (Castletown ED)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.01468, -9.09514
- SMR number
- CL010-047013-
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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 slightly elevated, gently S-sloping ground in rough pasture within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL009-084001-). This subcircular cashel (int. diams. 25m N-S; 23m E-W) is defined by a collapsed, double-faced stone wall (Wth 1.35m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.4-0.75m) of regular, thin flags. The inner wall-face is only clearly evident NE-E, while the outer wall-face is visible at the SE and SW and has been partly rebuilt at ENE. From NW-N the enclosed area is defined by a low, stony bank. An entrance gap (max. Wth 2.8m) at S is flanked by an upright flag jambstone (H 0.3m) on the E side and the W jambstone lies prone. A substantial band (max. combined Wth 5m at W; ext. H 1.6m) of rubble at W may overlie an internal feature (est. L 3.6m E-W; int. Wth 1m N-S) against the inner wall-face at the W edge of the cashel’s level interior. Built against the inner wall-face at the N is a subcircular cell (diams. 4m E-W; 3m N-S; H 0.5m). Grass-covered field walls radiate from the cashel at NW and SW and a less overgrown wall runs N from the N side of the cashel. Other sections of curving stone walls lie just outside the cashel at NNE and SE.
See attached image: CL010-047013-_01.JPG Aerial view of cashel from north (Photo. Markus Casey, March, 2007).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 27 February 2023
Nearby in the register
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- Enclosureunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.