Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Coad, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coad
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.96173, -9.06628
- SMR number
- CL017-073----
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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
In hazel woodland in an undulating landscape. Hachured on the 1897 OS 25-inch plan and the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This densely overgrown and very poorly preserved subcircular cashel (int. diam. c. 14m; est. ext. diam. c. 23m) is defined by a wall (Wth c. 1.3m at N) with few visible facing-stones. The wall has generally collapsed, forming a band of moss-covered stones (Wth 6-7m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.6-0.8m). A later drystone wall extends N from the cashel. A track/clearing through the woodland has destroyed the remains of the cashel wall from N to E.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 14 August 2023
Nearby in the register
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.