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Ringfort - cashel

Knockaunroe, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Knockaunroe, 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
Knockaunroe
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
52.98748, -9.04242
SMR number
CL017-032----

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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 gentle S-facing slope of a low NE-SW ridge in undulating pasture. Hachured on the first edition (1842) of the OS 6-inch map, and indicated on the OS 25-inch plan (1897) and the Cassini edition (1920) of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). When inspected in 1999, the remains of this subcircular cashel (diam. c. 40m) survived as a c. 40m-long arc of overgrown, double-faced wall (Wth 1.5m; H 0.8-1m) visible SE-S-SW, with collapsed stone tumble at the base of its inner face.
Subsequent satellite imagery (e.g. MapGenie 2004-2006) indicates that this last upstanding section of cashel wall was subsequently levelled. However, its full grass-covered enclosing line is clearly visible on Google Earth imagery (16-1-2011) and subsurface features are likely to survive intact.

See attached image: Snip of Google Earth image (16-1-2011)

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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