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Ringfort - cashel

Ballyportry South, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Ballyportry South, 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
Ballyportry South
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.95737, -9.04298
SMR number
CL017-084004-

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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

In sheltered pasture surrounded by overgrowth, with higher ground to N and S and a S-flowing stream c. 50m to the E. This poorly preserved enclosure is defined by a double-faced drystone stone wall (Wth 2.2-2.5m; int. H 0.6-0.7m; ext. H 0.5m) which survives only from SSW to SW. The facing-stones are rough and irregular. From ESE to SSE, a stony bank/scarp (int. H 0.7-1m) defines the enclosed area. At the top of this scarp at SSE, two large blocks appear to be the inner and outer facing-stones of a wall (int. H 0.4m; Wth c. 2.2m) which is overgrown here externally. At ESE, a broad stony bank (Wth 4.2m; H 0.8m) runs N (L 20m) from the edge of the enclosure and continues N towards Ballyportry Castle [CL017-084002-] and was possibly associated with it.

 

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott 

 

Date of upload: 13-10-2025

Nearby in the register

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

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