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Ringfort - cashel

Ballybreen, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Ballybreen, 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
Ballybreen
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
52.99182, -9.23806
SMR number
CL016-002002-

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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 a largely overgrown field in an area of reclaimed pasture with good views to S and SW and within an extensive field system (CL009-059001-). Hachured on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and on the 1897 OS 25-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996).
A moderately well-preserved subcircular cashel (int. dims. 23.5m N-S; 24m E-W) defined by a grassed-over and collapsed wall (H 1-2m; Wth 4.5m). Outer facing (H 1-1.05m) of large regularly sized limestone blocks survives at S and SW. With no inner facing apparent the original width is not measurable. There are no definite entrances; a gap in the S wall is of dubious antiquity and is likely due to tree roots. In the centre of the interior is an overgrown rectangular mound of stone and earth (L 5.25m; Wth 2.9m; H 0.2m). A second, similar mound is noted in the ENE sector along the perimeter of the cashel interior (L 6m). A souterrain (CL016-002003-) is located in the NW quadrant. A curving field boundary (CL016-002001-) is located c. 21m to the N.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack

Date of upload: 31 January 2022

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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