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Ringfort - cashel

Crossard, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Crossard, 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
Crossard
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
52.96762, -9.10532
SMR number
CL016-101----

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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

At the edge of a shelf on a NNW-facing slope with extensive views to the E and NE.
Hachured on the 1840 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. Listed as ‘enclosure’ in the RMP (1996).
A roughly circular cashel (dims. 35.1m NNE-SSW; 33.5m WNW-ESE crest to crest) defined from E to NW by a collapsed and grass-covered drystone wall (Wth 3.5-4.5m at base; int. H 0.3-0.45m at S; ext. H 0.45m at S). At N and NE, the wall has been reduced to a scarp (H 0.2m at E and NE; max. H 1m at N) and at N in particular the outer edge of the scarp is difficult to determine.
A single stone at SW (dims. L 0.15m; Wth 0.8m; H 0.6m) has its long axis pointing towards the centre of the site. The interior slopes to the NW where the ground is lower (1.4m) than at SE. A step of rock outcrop is exposed inside the perimeter at the N (max. H c. 0.6m) and a low collapsed and grassed-over drystone wall (H 0.2m; Wth 2m) extends across the interior from E to NW. An adjoining field wall at N and NE has recently been removed and piles of field clearance rubble are visible along the extant wall to the E. A natural scarp curves parallel to the perimeter of the site along the NW giving the false impression of an internal fosse (Wth 4m).

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack

Date of upload: 18 July 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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