Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Building
Cahermacon, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahermacon
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.97376, -9.13115
- SMR number
- CL016-144001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Located on the N half of a natural rectangular platform (66m N-S; 30m E-W) that slopes to the S. Indicated on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a roofed rectangular building; by the time of the 1916 ed., it was ruined and unroofed. The N wall (Wth 0.7-0.8m; H 0.4m; max. H 1.2m at NW) is the best preserved section of the building (int. dims. 9m N-S; 5.9m E-W). Only the inner face of the E and W walls is visible. The walls are constructed of crudely dressed and mortared stone that are probably of late-medieval date; no architectural features are evident (Breen and Ua Cróinín (2000, 5). A similar, but smaller, building (CL016-144002-) lies immediately to the N. The platform may have may have been adapted as a bawn (CL016-144003-) (ibid.).
See attached document with details from Risteárd Ua Cróinín and Martin Breen, The Castles and Tower-houses of Co. Clare (unpublished report). Uploaded courtesy of R. Ua Cróinín and M. Breen.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 25 August 2022
Nearby in the register
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.