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Ringfort - cashel

Caherbullaun, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Caherbullaun, 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
Caherbullaun
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
‘Caherahoagh Forts’
Latest-edition OS map
Caherbullaun Forts
Coordinates
52.97763, -9.01351
SMR number
CL017-044001-

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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 fairly level overgrown karst. Hachured and named ‘Caherahoagh Forts’ (also referring to an adjacent cashel (CL017-044002-) c. 25m to the NE) on the first edition (1842) of the OS 6-inch map. Also hachured but named ‘Caherbullaun Forts’ on the OS 25-inch plan (1897) and the Cassini edition (1920) of the OS 6-inch map, and referred to as ‘Caherbullaun’ by Westropp (1896, 367). This partly damaged subcircular cashel (int. diam. 30m N-S) is defined by an overgrown wall (Wth 2-2.4m; int. H 0.4-0.6m; ext. H 1m) and associated internal collapse (Wth 2m; H 0.8m) at S. The wall has been removed from NE-E and SW-W. At the N, a drystone field wall is built over the cashel wall, which has also been obscured by field-clearance material. The interior is covered with trees.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 20 July 2023

References

FitzPatrick, E. 2009 Native enclosed settlement and the problem of the Irish 'ring-fort'. Medieval Archaeology 53, 271–307.

Westropp, T.J. 1896 Prehistoric stone forts of northern Clare, parts I & II. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries 26, 142-58, 362-9.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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