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Ringfort - cashel

Carrownagoul,leitra, County Clare, Ireland

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Townland
Carrownagoul,leitra
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.03831, -8.97221
SMR number
CL010-082----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

On a slight rise in improved pasture with limestone pavement extending SW c. 70m to the W. Indicated on the first edition (1842) and hachured on the later, Cassini edition (1920) of the OS 6-inch map. This largely overgrown subcircular cashel (23m NNE-SSW; 19m WNW-ESE) is defined by a double-faced wall (Wth 1.6m). The wall-faces (max. H 0.5m) survive along the E where the monument is also defined by a scarp (max. H 1.3m at ENE). Elsewhere the wall has collapsed (Wth 3-4m; H 1m). There are also a number of boulders along the E, several of which appear to have been incorporated in the outer wall-face, particularly one at NE. There is a ringfort (CL010-083----) c. 60m to the ENE.

Compiled by: Gearoid Conroy and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 11 May 2023

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

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