Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Caherfadda, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherfadda
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.98511, -9.11630
- SMR number
- CL016-049003-
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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
In the centre of a cashel (CL016-049001-). One of two houses indicated on the 1840 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. The cashel and houses are described by Westropp (1913, 254) as ‘a ring-wall of poor coarse crag slabs nearly levelled when some houses were built in it’.
All that remains of this house is an overgrown cairn (c. 4m E-W; c. 2.5m N-S; H 1m) which, along with a second house (CL016-049002-) c. 7.5m to the W, occupies a D-shaped platform (L c. 20m; Wth c. 10m) defined along the periphery by a dip.
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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 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.