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Ringfort - cashel

Caheraderry, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Caheraderry, 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
Caheraderry
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
52.96367, -9.32946
SMR number
CL015-065----

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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 the highest point of a ridge aligned E-W with panoramic views in all directions. Hachured on the 1840 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. An oval cashel (35.5m E-W; 29.3m N-S) defined by a wide bank of stone collapse (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.5-4m; Wth 1.5-4m) with suggestions of an external fosse (Wth 2-3m) at E. No internal wall-face is evident, but from SE to W there is part of an outer wall-face comprising a single course of large boulders (H 0.55m). Two short stretches of terracing are present at S and SSW at a distance of 1.2m and 3m from the base of the cashel wall and may related to terracing around the monument. Two shallow depressions (Wth 2-3m) either side of the entrance suggest a fosse. There is an entrance causeway to the E (Wth 1.9-2.9m) flanked internally by a line of stones. The interior of the monument slopes gently down to the E. The interior is scattered with stone and has a telegraph pole.

The following image has been uploaded:
CL015-065----_01.jpg View of facing stones from S.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell

Date of upload: 14 August 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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