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Ringfort - cashel

Teernea, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Teernea, 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
Teernea
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.95972, -8.98758
SMR number
CL017-098002-

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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 hazel scrub on a N-facing slope, and abutting the E side of an adjoining cashel (CL017-098----). Hachured on both the first (1842 and Cassini (1916) editions of the OS 6-inch map. Classified as an ‘enclosure (conjoined)’ in the RMP (1996). Described by Westropp (1913, 242) as a ‘curious fort, 8-shaped in plan, of two equal rings, and excellent masonry with two faces and filling. It seems to have been built in one piece: the wall is usually 4 feet [c. 1.2m] to 4 feet 6 inches [c. 1.4m] high’. 

An oval cashel (int. diams 26.2m NE-SW; 23.1m NW-SE) has been significantly denuded since Westropp’s visit and is defined by a collapsed stone spread (Wth 3-6m; H 0.6-1m). A modern-looking gap connects the monument to the abutting cashel (CL017-098----) to the W. Internally, an amorphous clearance cairn (diam. c.7m) lies at the centre.

 

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

 

Date of upload: 21-10-2025

References

Westropp, T.J. 1913 Prehistoric remains (forts and dolmens) in the Corofin district, Co. Clare (no. 11). Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries 43, 232-60.

Nearby in the register

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

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