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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
52.98859, -9.15072
SMR number
CL016-020022-

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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 near the top of a gentle S and W facing slope, with good views from S to NW, within a field system (CL009-059001-). Hachured on the 1840 and 1916 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps. Listed as enclosure in the RMP (1996).
An almost circular cashel (30m WNW-ESE; 29.5m NNE-SSW crest to crest) defined by a grassed-over stone spread (Wth 2.8-3.7m; int. H 0.1-0.5m; ext. H 0.4-0.8m); a few facing stones are visible only at S. Two prominent stones are visible on the spread: one at W (L 0.9m; Wth 0.1m; H 0.85m) is orientated NW-SE. The second stone at NE (L 0.4m; Wth 0.2m; H 1m) is of limestone with a naturally pocked surface that has been polished as result of cattle using it as a scratching post. A series of small rectangular fields extend off the cashel immediately to the E and S. Another cashel (CL016-020020-) is located c. 48m to the NNW.

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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