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Ringfort - cashel

Poulaphuca (Castletown ED), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Poulaphuca, 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
Poulaphuca (Castletown ED)
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.01166, -9.09209
SMR number
CL010-047014-

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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 a S-facing slope in a fairly sheltered area in rough pasture, within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL009-084001-). This small subcircular cashel (int. diams. 17.7m NE-SW; 15.3m NW-SE; ext. dims. 21m NE-SW; 20m NW-SE) is defined by a collapsed, double-faced wall (est. Wth 1.6m; max. int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.4-0.75m) and associated spill (combined Wth 4-8m). There are two small alcoves in the inner wall-face W. The S alcove (H 0.28m; Wth 0.25m; D 0.65m) is 1.6m away from the N alcove (H 0.35m; Wth 0.35m; D 0.75m). In the SSW centre of the cashel’s slightly undulating interior is a possible souterrain (CL010-047018-). There may also be remains of hut sites around the edge of the cashel interior, mostly covered by the cashel wall’s spill. Grass-covered field walls radiate from the cashel at ENE, SE and W. Just outside the NNW side of the cashel is a hut site (CL010-047019-). There is a fulacht fia (CL010-211----) c. 57m to the SE and a hut site (CL010-278----) c. 108m to the SSW.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 27 February 2023

Nearby in the register

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

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