Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Leana, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leana
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.98578, -9.09417
- SMR number
- CL017-013----
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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
On a SE-facing pasture slope, just below where the slope becomes very steep and wooded, and offering wide views out ENE-S. Hachured on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1920) editions of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This hazel-covered subcircular cashel (int. diams. 32.7m NNW-SSE; 26.1m NNE-WSW; ext. dims. 38.8m NNW-SSE; 36m ENE-WSW) is defined by a stone wall and associated collapse (combined Wth 3-6m; int. H 0.2-0.8m; ext. H 0.6-1.5m). The outer wall-face can generally be traced all around, especially S-W (max. H 1m), but at N it is mostly reduced to a single course. There is a souterrain (CL017-013002-) in the E centre of the cashel’s SE-sloping interior. Against the cashel’s inner wall-face at the WSW is a later, roughly semicircular animal pen (int. dims. 12m NW-SE; 6m NE-SW) defined by stone wall collapse (Wth 2m; H 0.6-0.8m).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 17 July 2023
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.