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Ringfort - cashel

Caherfadda, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Caherfadda, 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
Caherfadda
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
52.99246, -9.12072
SMR number
CL016-044----

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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

Towards the bottom of an E facing slope. Hachured on the 1840 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. Listed as ‘enclosure’ in the RMP (1996).
An oval enclosure (c. 32m NE-SW; c. 19m NW-SE) defined by a stone spread (Wth 3-4m; H 0.4-0.8m). The wall is best preserved at the NE (Wth 1.2m; H 0.8-1m). A gap at SE (Wth 5.7m) may be an original entrance and it is defined by an upright stone at N. Just S of the entrance there is a drystone structure against the cashel perimeter (ext. dims. 2.6m NE-SW; 0.6-1.8m NW-SE; H c. 1m). An area (9m E-W; 8m N-S) defined by a stone spread (Wth 1m) abuts the N end of the interior.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack

Date of upload: 10 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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