Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Clooneen (corcomroe By.), County Clare, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.