Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Killian, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killian
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1920)
- Coordinates
- 52.91442, -8.94991
- SMR number
- CL026-002----
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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
Situated on a slight rise in an undulating landscape. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the RMP (1996). A circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 28m WNW-ESE; max. ext. diam. 35m WNW-ESE) defined by a stone spread (Wth 2.5-3.5m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 2m) which is incorporated from S to W into the overgrown townland boundary dividing Killian and Ballycarroll. There is no visible entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 28 November 2016
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Cursing stoneunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.