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Ringfort - cashel

Commons South,Ballyportry North, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Commons South, Ballyportry North, 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
Commons South,Ballyportry North
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.97045, -9.05360
SMR number
CL017-030----

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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 a S-facing karst slope in dense hazel scrub. Hachured on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1920) editions of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This small, heavily overgrown, rectangular structure (int. dims. 23.5m N-S; 12.7m E-W; ext. dims. 27.2m N-S; 19.5m E-W) is defined quite differently on each side: Along the E and W, the enclosing element comprises a thin band of loose stone at the top of an inward-facing scarp (Wth 0.7m at E; H 1m at E; H 1.5m at W). On the stone tumble along the W is a rough line (Wth 0.9m; H 0.6m) of boulders while on the E perimeter is a drystone wall (Wth 0.6m; H 0.8m) which acts as the boundary separating the townlands of Ballyportry North and Commons South. The N limits are defined by a stony bank (Wth 3.8-4m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.4m) overlain by a drystone wall (Wth 0.5m). The S limits are defined by a double-faced stone wall (Wth 1m; H 1m). The interior is sunken, especially in relation to external ground level to E and W.

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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