Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Sheshymore, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sheshymore
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.99319, -9.13854
- SMR number
- CL016-020027-
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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
On a gentle N-facing slope at the N-end of a low, narrow, NE-SW ridge, in rough pasture. A very poorly preserved, roughly circular, cashel (29m E-W; 28m N-S) is defined by a low, moss-covered stone spread (W 2.5m-3m; max. H 0.4m) with occasional outer facing stones which have been partially rebuilt (max. H 0.8m). There is no obvious original entrance and a gap at SSW (W 2.1m) appears modern and may be associated with the remains of a small, roughly square enclosure (min. L c. 6.5m; min. Wth c. 6.6m) formed by remains of two stone walls radiating off the inner face of the cashel wall in the SW sector. Of uncertain antiquity, this small, internal enclosure is recorded on the OS 25-inch map but may have functioned as a livestock pen?
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 11 January 2023
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.