Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Lislorkan South, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lislorkan South
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cahergillaun (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.95801, -9.40800
- SMR number
- CL014-005----
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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
In pasture on the gentle S-facing slope of a low NNW-SSE running ridge, with steeply sloping ground just to the SW and wide views in all directions. Hachured and labelled ‘Cahergillaun’ on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1920) editions of the OS 6-inch map. This subrectangular cashel (25-32m ENE-WSW; 29m NNW-SSE) is defined by a low, collapsed and grass-covered stone spread (int. H 0-0.2m; Wth 1.1-1.5m; ext. H 0.1-1.1m) with upright slabs of outer wall facing intermittently visible. Several livestock gaps cut through the enclosing element and there are several low, grass-covered cairns along the E edge and NW sector of the cashel’s undulating interior.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 3-10-2025
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.