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Ringfort - cashel

Creevagh (Burren By.), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Creevagh, 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
Creevagh (Burren By.)
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.00119, -9.09296
SMR number
CL010-200001-

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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

On level ground on a gently N-sloping semi-karst plateau in rough pasture, with widest views from N to S and within an extensive field system (CL017-180----). This small, poorly preserved subcircular cashel (int. diam. 19.5m N-S; ext. diam. 23.1m N-S) is defined only by the W half of its collapsed wall (Wth 1.8m), curving from SSW to N. The outer wall-face (max. H 0.5m) is visible within this wall collapse, especially at WNW-N. The interior slopes to the N and E and there is a souterrain (CL010-200002-) S of centre. A later drystone wall is built over the cashel wall from W to N, while another later straight wall extends NNW-SSE through the middle of the cashel. Other later drystone walls are built around the cashel.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 14 June 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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