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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
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated (1916)
Coordinates
52.99280, -9.14952
SMR number
CL016-020023-

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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 low-lying rough pastureland within a field system (CL009-059001-); a ridge rises c. 50m to the S. Indicated on the 1897 OS 25-inch map and the 1916 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as enclosure in the RMP (1996).
A subcircular area (dims. 31.3m E-W; 29.2m N-S crest to crest) is defined by a stony earthen bank that is topped with a drystone field wall from NW to E to SW. A roughly N-S running field boundary cuts across it at NW and SW. The original bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.3m) is well preserved to the W of the latter wall. Elsewhere it has been altered by the addition of the drystone wall and clearance. The level of the interior is lower than the external ground level (at E: bank Wth 3.2m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 0.6m). In the N sector, three or four overgrown spoil mounds (diam. 5-6m; H 1.5m) are likely the result of clearance. A farm trackway skirts the site from E to S. A wedge tomb (CL016-020030-) is located c. 50m to the SSE.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Lynda McCormack

Date of upload: 20 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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