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Ringfort - cashel

Carrownahooan West, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Carrownahooan 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
Carrownahooan West
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated (1916)
Coordinates
52.97943, -9.32753
SMR number
CL015-006----

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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 boggy scrubby pasture, on a gentle S-facing slope, c. 100m E of Knocknaskeagh River, surrounded by conifer plantations to E, W, and S. Indicated as enclosure on the 1840 and 1916 eds. OS 6-inch maps. Listed as an ‘enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). A poorly preserved subcircular cashel (diam. 20m) largely defined by a grassed-covered stone wall with collapsed material along its base (Wth 3-4m; H 0.4m). At NNW the enclosing element is composed of an earthen bank (Wth 2.5-3m; H 0.15m). The interior is very overgrown. A clearance cairn lies within the N quadrant, with a second immediately outside the enclosure at NNW.

The following image has been uploaded:
CL015-006----_01.jpg Aerial view of cashel from NE (ASI aerial photo, SMR file)

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell

Date of upload: 5 September 2022

Nearby in the register

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

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