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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
52.98515, -9.11634
SMR number
CL016-049----

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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 gentle WNW-facing slope with wide views from S to N and limited views in the direction of Leamaneh hill to the WSW; within an extensive field system (CL017-180----). Hachured on the 1916 OS 6-inch map with house structures (CL016-049002- and CL016-049003-) depicted in the centre. Described by Westropp (1913, 254) as ‘a ring-wall of poor coarse crag slabs nearly levelled when some houses were built in it’.
A circular cashel (ext. diam. 47m N-S) defined by a stone spread on which a drystone wall was built from W to N (H 1.3m in the N). The original cashel wall width (Wth 1.45m) can be made out at S. A field wall aligned WSW-ENE crosses the cashel to the N of the centre. Two later house structures (CL016-049002- and CL016-049003-) S of the field wall occupy a D-shaped platform (L c. 20m; Wth c. 10m) defined along the periphery by a dip. Another cashel (CL016-166----) is located c. 34m to the NE.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack

Date of upload: 11 May 2022

References

Westropp, T.J. 1913 Prehistoric remains (forts and dolmens) in the Corofin district, Co. Clare (no. 11). Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries 43, 232-60.

Nearby in the register

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

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