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Ringfort - cashel

Clooneen (Corcomroe By.), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Clooneen, 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
Clooneen (Corcomroe By.)
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
52.98927, -9.15126
SMR number
CL016-020020-

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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 pastureland on high ground at the S extent of an E-W ravine, within a field system (CL009-059001-), an E-W running roadway lies immediately to the N. Hachured on the 1840 and 1916 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps. Listed as enclosure in the RMP (1996).
An almost circular cashel (ext. dims. c. 33m E-W; 32.4m N-S) defined by a drystone wall encloses a flat-topped mound. An outer wall (Wth 1.7m) was subsequently added to the original cashel wall (ext. dims. 28.4m N-S). The outer face of the inner wall is visible from SW to NNE and the outer face of the later wall is visible from S to N and at NNE; where visible sections up to 1m high survive. There is no evidence for an entrance but it may be located in the E where there is a particular concentration of collapsed material along the perimeter. The enclosed mound is eroded at the edges and rises 1.4-1.8m above the external ground level; at N it rises to 3.6m. A cashel (CL016-020022-) is located c. 48m to the SSE and another cashel (CL016-020019-) is located c. 80m to the W.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Lynda McCormack

Date of upload: 19 April 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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