Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Building
Cahermacon, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahermacon
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.97383, -9.13110
- SMR number
- CL016-144002-
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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, and immediately to the N of another similar, but larger, building (CL016-144001-). Not indicated on the 1840 or 1916 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Only the grass-covered NE corner of this building (int. dims. 6.75m N-S; 3m E-W) survives. It is constructed of crudely dressed and mortared stone that is probably of late-medieval date; no architectural features are evident (Breen and Ua Cróinín (2000, 5). The platform may have may have been adapted as a bawn (CL016-144003-) (ibid.).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 25 August 2022
References
Ua Cróinín, R. and Breen, M. 1997 The castles and tower-houses of Co. Clare, 6 vols. Unpublished report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
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.