Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Castletown (Burren By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castletown (Burren By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.01991, -9.07974
- SMR number
- CL010-122----
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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 a slight rise in an area of thick scrub (whitethorn, blackthorn and briar) with good views NW-E-S obscured by higher ground elsewhere. Outlined on the both the first (1842) and later, Cassini edition (1920) of the OS 6-inch map. This mostly levelled and overgrown square cashel (int. dims. 32m N-S; 32m E-W) is defined by collapsed stone walling (Wth 5-6.5m; av. ext. H 1m). The wall remains are slightly more substantial intermittently S-W. There is an enclosure (CL010-056----) c. 77m to the W.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 26 May 2023
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.