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Ringfort - cashel

Porsoon, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Porsoon, 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
Porsoon
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Caherphreeghaun
Latest-edition OS map
Caherphreeghaun (1916)
Coordinates
52.97849, -9.27701
SMR number
CL015-031----

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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 rise in undulating poorly drained pasture within a farmyard, with clear views to the N and W. The ground slopes steeply away at S and W. Hachured and labelled ‘Caherphreeghaun’ on the 1840 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. The site was in poor condition c. 1910 and it was noted by Westropp (1910, 150) among a group of cahers in the area surviving only as ‘absolutely defaced remains, sometimes all trace gone’. A circular area (int. diam. 20.5m N-S; 19.75m E-W) defined by a drystone wall (int. H 0.7m; ext. H 2.2m) one stone thick (0.6m). There is a modern gap at ENE (Wth 8m). The interior is level and covered in agricultural plastic indicating former use as a silage pit.

Reference:
Westropp, T.J. 1910. Notes on the antiquities around Kilfenora and Lehinch, Co. Clare. Part III. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 1, 147-59.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell

Date of upload: 3 July 2023

Nearby in the register

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

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