Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Kiltacky Beg, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kiltacky Beg
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.03733, -8.94872
- SMR number
- CL011-004----
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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 rise in improved pasture surrounded by scrub and exposed limestone pavement E-S-NW. Indicated on the first edition (1842) and hachured on the later, Cassini edition (1920) of the OS 6-inch map. The OS 25-inch plan records a disused limekiln immediately NE of the monument. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This circular cashel (int. diam. 54.5m N-S; ext. diam. 57m E-W; 56.6m N-S) is defined by a double-faced drystone wall (Wth 1.4m; H 0.7-1.5m) which survives SW-N; elsewhere the wall has fallen outward, down a short natural carp which is present at N-E-SW. The wall’s stones are uncoursed and may have been rebuilt, possibly in conjunction with a sheep gate (Wth 0.6m; H 0.85m) at NNW. There is a livestock gap at E and an entrance gap at SW which appeared recent when inspected in 2000. The perimeter is planted with a hawthorn hedge and the interior is under grass.
See attached image: CL011-004----_01.jpg Aerial photo from S, 2007. (Photo. Markus Casey)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 12 January 2023
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.