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Ringfort - cashel

Rinroe, County Clare, Ireland

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Townland
Rinroe
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
52.96964, -8.99373
SMR number
CL017-095----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture on the crest of a NE-SW ridge flanked by marshy ground to the NW and SE. Hachured on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1916) editions of the OS 6-inch map. Classified as an enclosure in the RMP (1996). A small, oval-shaped cashel (int. diams. 20.2m NW-SE; 15m NE-SW) is defined by the remains of drystone wall on a collapsed stone spread (Wth 2-4.4m; H 0.6-0.8m) into which a later field wall is incorporated from NE-SE-SW. The interior is dished and partially defined by a natural scarp towards the NE, and is covered in collapsed stone and hazel scrub. 

 

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Eve Campbell

 

Date of upload: 21-10-2025

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

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