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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
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.98207, -9.04130
SMR number
CL017-035----

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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 SW-facing slope of a knoll in undulating mixed karst and pasture. Hachured on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1920) editions of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This poorly preserved cashel (int. diam. 24m NW-SE) is defined from NE-E-S by a double-faced stone wall (Wth 1.8m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H c. 0.8m) and moss-covered collapsed walling (combined Wth 4m). Inner and outer facing-stones are visible intermittently. Elsewhere, the wall has been removed, its line overlain by a later drystone wall from S-W-NW and by a single course of drystone wall from NW-N-NE. Near the cashel’s centre is a subcircular area of sunken stone collapse (diam. 3m; D 0.5m) with rubble accumulated around its S edge. This may be a natural depression or cave, or possibly a souterrain. There is an enclosure (CL017-238----) c. 65m to the SW.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 20 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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