Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Caherycahill, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherycahill
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.94085, -9.39909
- SMR number
- CL015-156----
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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
Situated on a gentle S-facing slope in pasture. A roughly square area (max. dims. c. 34m SW-NE) defined by broad banks (Wth >5m) visible on OSi MapGenie 2013-2018 and on Google Earth (imagery date: 18 March 2022). Westropp (1900, 427) lists a rath in Caherycahill townland that was named in an Inquisition of 1626 but was destroyed in 1900. This is potentially the site in question.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 4 November 2025
References
Westropp, T.J. 1900-02 The cahers of county Clare: their names, features, and bibliography. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy Series 3, vol. 6, 415-49.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.