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Ringfort - cashel

Leana, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Leana, 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
Leana
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
52.98451, -9.08176
SMR number
CL017-022----

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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

On the hazel-covered W edge of a karst plateau, with lower improved pastureland to the W. Indicated on the first edition (1842) of the OS 6-inch map and hachured on the later OS 25-inch plan (1897) and Cassini edition (1920) of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This small, poorly preserved cashel (int. dims. 16.9m E-W; 15.9m N-S; ext. dims. 19.4m E-W; 18m N-S) is defined by the base of a stone wall (Wth 1-1.2m) incorporating large facing-stones. The wall does not survive from E-S where a NE-SW running laneway passes 2m from the cashel perimeter. There is exposed bedrock in the centre of the cashel. A small pen (int. dims. 1.5m E-W; 1.5m N-S) defined by a drystone wall (H 1.3m) is built on the cashel perimeter at W. A possible enclosure site (CL017-242----) lies c. 55m to the SW.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 18 July 2023

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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