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Ringfort - cashel

Ballykeel South, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Ballykeel 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
Ballykeel South
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Caheremon
Latest-edition OS map
Caheremon (1916)
Coordinates
52.99236, -9.22192
SMR number
CL016-013----

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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

On a natural rise in an area of undulating rock outcrop and pasture with good views and within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-). Hachured and named ‘Caheremon’ on the 1840 and 1916 eds of the OS 6-inch map. Described by Westropp (1900, 429) as ‘levelled to the field’ and ‘of no great size’.
A poorly preserved subcircular cashel (32.5m E-W; 29m N-S) defined by a low collapsed and grassed-over stone and earthen bank (H 0.8m), with an inner face remaining at W (H 0.15m) but reduced to a scarp elsewhere. Slightly truncated at NE by a modern field boundary. In the interior, there are several long low earth and stone banks with no discernible pattern. Visible concrete within the rubble suggests a modern shed since destroyed.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack

Date of upload: 2 February 2022

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

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

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