Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Rannagh West, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rannagh West
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.04028, -9.10326
- SMR number
- CL010-201----
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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 a semi-karst plateau in rough pasture, within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL005-160001-), with a cliff c. 70m to the W, slightly higher ground to the E and widest views from SW to NE. Only the SE corner of a rectilinear cashel (int. dims. 25m N-S; 20m E-W) remains. The S part of the E wall is evident with associated collapse (combined Wth 3m) and the outer wall-face (H 0.6m) is intermittently visible. The E end of the S wall (Wth 1.9-2m) has some low traces of the inner wall-face and some well-built outer-facing (H 0.45-1.4m) of rough limestone flags. A very vague scarp is visible at W and N, over which a later wall is built.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 20 June 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
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- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.