Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Leana, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leana
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.97936, -9.09591
- SMR number
- CL017-010002-
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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 dense woodland on a S- and SW-facing slope. Hachured on the OS 25-inch plan (1897) and on the Cassini edition (1920) of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This very poorly preserved and overgrown circular cashel (int. diam. 22m N-S) is defined by a scarp (Wth 1.6m; H 0.6m) from W-N-E, and elsewhere by a stony bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.6m), upon which stones are laid horizontally. There is a quarry (CL017-010001-) c. 6m to the SW.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 20 July 2023
Nearby in the register
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.