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Ringfort - cashel

Clooncoose, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Clooncoose, 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
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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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

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

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

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