Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Porsoon, County Clare, Ireland
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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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
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
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.