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Ringfort - cashel

Fahee South, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Fahee South, 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
Fahee South
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.03060, -9.05010
SMR number
CL010-064066-

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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 level ground in semi-karst rough pastureland commanding views from N to SE within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL010-064001-). Indicated on the 1897 OS 25-inch plan and the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This square cashel (37m N-S; 37m E-W) is defined by a double-faced stone wall (Wth 1.1-2m; int. H 0.4-0.9m; ext. H 0.6-1.25m), with large stone slabs (H 0.5-0.7m) set on edge found intermittently along the W outer wall-face. One such slab in the centre of this side appears to block a gap in this wall – albeit a gap which appears too narrow to be an entrance. A later drystone wall overlies the cashel perimeter. There is a modern gap at the SE. The uneven E-sloping interior is somewhat rocky, with a natural bedrock step in the NW quadrant. There are two later animal pens in the interior, one in the NE corner and the other against the W centre of the N wall. An enclosure (CL010-242----) lies c. 87m to the W.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 22 May 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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