Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Carrownagoul, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrownagoul
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.02682, -8.96971
- SMR number
- CL010-085002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 level low-lying ground covered in hazel with some more open pasture immediately to the W. Depicted on the first edition (1842) of the OS 6-inch map as a large oval ringfort (est. max. diams. c. 50m ESE-WNW; c. 40m NNE-SSW) and shown abutting second ringfort (CL010-085----) at W. The W portion of the monument is not visible at ground level and dense overgrowth obscures the rest of the site area.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 12 May 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.