Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Caherfadda, County Clare, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.