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Ringfort - cashel

Tullycommon, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Tullycommon, 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
Tullycommon
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.02964, -9.05695
SMR number
CL010-064016-

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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 NW shoulder of a high (between the 500’ and 600’ contours) ridge in rough pasture, overlooking the Castletown River valley SW-W-NW, with ground rising up steeply to the S and SE. Within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL010-064001-). Indicated on the OS 25-inch plan (1897) and the Cassini edition (1920) of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This subrectangular cashel (int. dims. 38m NNW-SSE; 32m ENE-WSW) is defined by a double-faced stone wall (Wth 1-1.1m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.7-1.2m) built of uncoursed but regular blocks. A later field wall is built over the cashel perimeter. The SE quadrant (int. dims. 22m E-W; max. 6m N-S) of the rocky and uneven interior is enclosed by a curving stony bank (Wth 2m; H 0.7m) and within this subdivision are two oval cells or animal pens (int. dims. c. 4m N-S; 2m E-W). A hut site (CL010-243----) lies c. 82m to the SSW.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 6 April 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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