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Ringfort - cashel

Rinnamona, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Rinnamona, 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
Rinnamona
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
52.98794, -9.04477
SMR number
CL017-031----

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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

In gently undulating pasture with clear views to N. Indicated on the first (1842) and Cassini (1920) editions of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This large subcircular cashel (int. diam. 62m NNE-SSW) is defined by a substantial, but largely rebuilt, double-faced stone wall (Wth 1.2-1.7m) which survives highest (int. H 1-1.4m; ext. H 1.4-2m) SE-W-NW, but is much reduced NW-NE where it is almost level with the interior and only the base of the outer wall-face is visible, overlaid by a later drystone wall. There is a modern entrance gap (Wth 3m) at NNW and the enclosing wall has been removed NE-E-SE.

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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