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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
52.96944, -8.98618
SMR number
CL017-099001-

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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 the summit of a rocky outcrop in S-facing reclaimed pasture overlooking Lough George c. 150m o the E. Hachured on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1916) editions of the OS 6-inch maps. Classified as an enclosure in the RMP (1996). A scrub-covered circular cashel (int. diam. 20.2m NE-SW; ext. diam. 22.7m NW-SW) is defined by a double-faced drystone stone-wall (H 1m) that appears to have been largely rebuilt. There is no clearly identifiable entrance. An enclosure (CL017-099002-) lies c. 50m to the SE. 

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Eve Campbell

 

Date of upload: 21-10-2025

Nearby in the register

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

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