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Ringfort - cashel

Ballycotteen South, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Ballycotteen South, 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
Ballycotteen South
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
52.96457, -9.38021
SMR number
CL015-043----

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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 pasture on a S-facing slope overlooked by higher ground to N, c.50m W of a stream. Hachured on the 1840 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the RMP (1996). A subcircular enclosure (int. 20.5m N-S; 16.75m E-W) defined by a low overgrown collapsed drystone wall (H 0.7m) with modern gaps at the NNW and N. Along the W, the wall overlies a band of grassed-over collapsed material incorporating occasional large horizontal slabs which may be the remains of an earlier collapsed enclosure. Along the perimeter at the NE is a depression suggesting an external fosse not visible elsewhere.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell

Date of upload: 10 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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