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Ringfort - cashel

Coad, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Coad, 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
Coad
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Tullan Fort
Latest-edition OS map
Tullan Fort (1916)
Coordinates
52.96824, -9.07441
SMR number
CL017-069----

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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

At the W end of an E-W running ridge in pasture, with land falling away immediately to the S and c. 50m to the N. Hachured and named ‘Tullan Fort’ on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This poorly preserved, tree-covered subcircular cashel (int. dims. 34.8m NW-SE; ext. dims. 38.8m NW-SE) has been truncated by a field wall at the SW. Elsewhere it is defined by a stone wall (Wth 2m at SE), which at the NW runs along the edge of a scarp (H 1m; Wth 3.5m). Occasional facing-stones are visible around the perimeter. Just to the S of the centre is a line of upright slabs (6m N-S).

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 14 August 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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