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Ringfort - cashel

Kells, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Kells, 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
Kells
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
52.95389, -9.03294
SMR number
CL017-085----

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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 a low E-W ridge 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 subcircular cashel (int. diams. 26.1m E-W; 22.3m N-S; ext. diams. 30.3m E-W; 27.7m N-S) is defined by grass-covered collapse (Wth 3-4m; H c. 0.2-0.5m) from a stone wall (est. Wth 2-2.6m), the inner facing stones of which (H 0.3m) are visible for a short stretch at W. The collapse is clearest from S-W but the external collapse seems to have been removed at N and E. A later drystone wall (Wth 0.5m; H 0.5m) overlies the cashel’s probable outer wall-face and the perimeter is overgrown by alder trees SW-W-NW, with some bushes also growing outside from NE-SE-SW.

 

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott 

 

Date of upload: 29-10-2025

Nearby in the register

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

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