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Ringfort - cashel

Rannagh West, County Clare, Ireland

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

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

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