Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Knocknaskeagh (corcomroe By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocknaskeagh (corcomroe By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Sheepfold
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.97786, -9.32911
- SMR number
- CL015-112002-
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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
In marshy pasture on a SSE-facing slope c. 55m W of the Knocknaskeagh River. Depicted as a subcircular enclosure named ‘sheepfold’ on the 1840 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). A cashel (23m SW-NE) defined by collapsed and grassed-over intermittently visible stone wall (Wth c. 4m; H 0.4m) surviving to one course high. The interior is flat with bedrock exposed in places. A more recent partly overgrown drystone wall (H 1.5-1.8m) has been built the inner edge of the cashel wall. Along the perimeter at the E are the remains of a small overgrown stone building, possibly a shed.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 22 October 2025
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.