Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Clooncoose, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clooncoose
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.00237, -9.07304
- SMR number
- CL010-102----
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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
At the summit and upper E slope of a semi-karst low hill in rough pasture, with best views from W to SSE. Hachured on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This circular cashel (int. dims. 19m N-S; 18m E-W) is defined by a double-faced wall (Wth 0.85-1.5m; int. H 0.4-0.6m; ext. H 0.5-1.1m). The outer wall-face is generally well preserved and is built of fairly regular uncoursed blocks. The original inner wall-face only survives sporadically and has been rebuilt in most sectors. The cashel interior is slightly rocky and gently E-sloping. There is a hut site (CL010-102002-) against the inner wall-face at the SW. Field walls radiate from the cashel at the ENE, SW and NNW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 30 May 2023
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.