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Ringfort - cashel

Drumandoora, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Drumandoora, 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
Drumandoora
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Partially indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated (1916)
Coordinates
52.99542, -8.72687
SMR number
CL012-004----

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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

In level pasture, with land rising to the S but falling to the N and with wide views out in this direction. Partly indicated on the first edition (1842) of the OS 6-inch map but fully indicated on the later OS 25-inch plan (1897) and Cassini edition (1920) of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure (possible)’ in the RMP (1996). When inspected in 1999, this subcircular cashel (int. diams. 38.4m E-W; 32.5m NNW-SSE; ext. diams. 44m E-W; 38.8m NNW-SSE) was defined by a low, wide rubble wall and associated collapse (combined Wth 2.1-4.2m; max. int. H 0.8m; max. ext. H 0.75m), which could be traced all around but particularly from E-S-WSW. There was an entrance gap (Wth 2m) at WSW. Overlying the cashel wall was a narrower modern field wall (av. Wth 0.8-0.9m; H 0.65 -1.4m) with courses of larger and more regularly laid blocks, as well as a topmost course of small stones. There was an overgrown clearance cairn in the SE quadrant of the cashel interior. Subsequently, this cairn and the enclosing element from ESE-S-WNW, including wall and entrance gap, appear to have been levelled sometime around 2010 / 2011 - see satellite imagery MapGenie DigitalGlobe (2011-2013).

 

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott

 

Date of upload: 2-10-2025

Nearby in the register

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

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