Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Knockaunroe, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockaunroe
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.98818, -9.02507
- SMR number
- CL017-038----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a rise in undulating 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 overgrown and partly damaged small circular cashel (int. dims. 20.4m N-S; 19m E-W) is defined from W-N by a stony bank (Wth 5m; H 1.5m) which appears to be partly composed of modern spoil from field-clearance activity, with many boulders piled on it. From N-E, the cashel is defined by a low bank (Wth 3m; H 0.3-0.5m) with some stone on it, including some larger field stones. From E-S-W, the cashel wall has been rebuilt as a loose drystone wall (Wth 2m; H 1m). Field walls recorded on OS mapping radiating E, SW and W from the cashel perimeter have been removed and there is a field-clearance cairn just to the E.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 20 July 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.