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Ringfort - cashel

Ballycasheen, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Ballycasheen, 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
Ballycasheen
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured (1842)
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.97585, -9.13089
SMR number
CL016-034----

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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

On a hillock on a valley floor with views extending c. 0.5-1km from W to N and extending 2km in other directions. Hachured on the 1840 OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). Described by Westropp (1905, 211) as ‘mere foundations’ ‘on the edge of Ballycasheen’.
This is an oval cashel (ext. dims 31m E-W; 23m N-S) defined by a grass-covered, flat-topped stone spread which varies in width (Wth 4m in the N; Wth 6m in the E; Wth 6.3m in the S; Wth 8.8m in the W) and rises (H 0.2-0.4m) above the level interior (int. dims. 20m E-W; 14m N-S). The external height of the spread varies (H 0.6-0.8m) and is lowest in the N (H 0.4m). The stone spread is regular but with some intrusions into the cashel interior and there are some potential facing stones. A later cut into the E extent of the spread has exposed the stone. The site is surrounded by later drystone-walling on all sides except the N. The site was levelled before the construction of these walls and the stone spread extends out beneath the base of them.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack

Date of upload: 4 May 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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