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Ringfort - cashel

Aglish,Gortlecka, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Aglish, Gortlecka, 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
Aglish,Gortlecka
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.98966, -9.00049
SMR number
CL017-050----

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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 creat of a N-facing slope in 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 and tree-covered subcircular cashel (int. dims. 35.7m N-S; 34m E-W) is defined from ENE-S-SW by a double-faced stone wall (Wth 1.4-2.5m; int. H 1.2-1.5m; ext. H 1.3m) with a livestock gap at ENE. From SW-N-ENE the cashel wall has been removed and the perimeter here is defined by a low, stone-covered earthen bank (Wth 4-5m; int. H 0.2-0.4m; ext. H 0.5-1m). However, vestiges of the cashel’s original double-faced wall (Wth 1.7m) are visible at WNW. The footings of a later field wall (Wth 0.6m) run NW-SE across the E part of the interior.

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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