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Ringfort - cashel

Ballybaun, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Ballybaun, 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
Ballybaun
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
52.98740, -9.16750
SMR number
CL016-020012-

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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 an ENE-WSW spur extending from the base of Ballyganner Hill to the NE and within an extensive field system (CL009-059001-). Hachured on the 1840 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). A poorly preserved, grass-covered, bivallate cashel, circular in plan (max. ext. dims. 60m N-S; 60m E-W). The inner enclosure (ext. dims. 37.7m N-S; 37m E-W) is defined by a low grass-covered stone spread (Wth 4-4.8m; ext. H 0.8-1.3m) from S to W. From NW to SE the stone spread is more substantial (Wth 8-9m; ext. H 1.4-2m; int. H 0.4-0.7m). The inner wall-face is visible at NE and E (Wth at base 3-3.3m) and the outer wall-face is generally visible from WNW to ENE and intermittently visible from NE to S. The stones in the wall, where visible are laid horizontally (dims. L c. 1m; Wth 0.5m; H 0.5m). There is an entrance (Wth 2.4m) in the inner wall at the S.
The outer enclosing element (Wth 6-8m) comprises a free-standing drystone wall built on the edge of a low scarp (H 0.5m) from ENE to S and a stony scarp (H 1.5m) elsewhere, separated from the inner enclosure by a berm (Wth 6-8m). Outer facing-stones are intermittently visible at the NW and N.
A boat-shaped depression (CL016-020041-) S of the centre may have been a souterrain. An enclosure (CL016-020042-) is located c. 31m to the W and two cashels (CL016-020013- and CL016-020014-) and an enclosure (CL016-020035-)are located c. 100m to the ENE.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack

Date of upload: 21 March 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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