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Ringfort - cashel

Deerpark (Burren By.), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Deerpark, 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
Deerpark (Burren By.)
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.99061, -9.12859
SMR number
CL016-036----

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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 an E-W ridge, in a col in the Leamaneh valley. Traversed by the deerpark wall associated with Leamaneh castle (CL016-032002-) which is built on an extension of the same ridge. Listed as ‘enclosure’ in the RMP (1996) and indicated on Robinson’s map of the Burren (1977).
A poorly preserved cashel (19.6m N-S; 26m E-W) defined by remnants of a wall (Wth 1-2m) visible at N and E (H 0.2m) where it is level with the interior. The deerpark wall traverses the monument E-W with most of the enclosure to the N (14.8m N-S) and just 3m (N-S) to the S of the wall. Another enclosure (CL016-035----) is located c. 87m to the SSW.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack

Date of upload: 4 May 2022

References

Robinson, T. 1977 (revised 1999) The Burren: a two-inch map of the uplands of north-west Clare. Map scale 1:31680. Roundstone: Folding Landscapes.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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