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Ringfort - cashel

Ballysteen, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Ballysteen, 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
Ballysteen
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
52.95063, -9.41133
SMR number
CL014-027----

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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 low N-S ridge in gently undulating pasture c. 25m to the W of the S-flowing Ballysteen River. Hachured on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1920) edition of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This well-preserved circular cashel (25.85m N-S; 25.2m E-W) is defined by a stone wall (Wth 2-3m; int. H 0-0.2m; ext. H 0.5-1.3m) with up to four courses of outer stones facing a rubble core. The wall has collapsed outwards in places, especially along the W, and is overgrown at E. There is a gap (Wth 0.9m at base, 1.9m at top) at WSW, and two smaller gaps at NE and E which may be livestock gaps. The interior is slightly dished towards the centre.

 

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott

 

Date of upload: 6-10-2025

Nearby in the register

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

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