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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
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
52.98012, -9.11900
SMR number
CL016-046----

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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 low-lying ground in rough pasture with Parknabinnia hill to the NE and Leamaneh hill to the NW.
Hachured on the 1840 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. Listed as ‘enclosure’ in the RMP (1996).
A raised, roughly circular platform (33.5m N-S; 32m E-W) is defined by a scarp (est. dims. 44.4m N-S; 36.3m E-W) which is highest in the S (H 0.4-1m). The platform is poorly defined from S to NNW. At the base of the scarp from NNW to NE, large facing stones laid on their long axis (L c. 1m) are visible. A section of facing stones is also visible at SE (L 4m). A drystone structure abuts the outer perimeter of the cashel at NE (L c. 15m; Wth c. 8m; H c. 1m). A hut site (CL016-047003-) is located c. 98m to the SSW.

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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