Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Derry (bunratty Upper By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derry (bunratty Upper By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1920)
- Coordinates
- 52.89784, -8.95956
- SMR number
- CL026-023----
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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 gentle S-facing slope. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A circular grass-covered area with rock outcrop (int. diam.16m N-S; 16m E-W) defined by a stone spread (at E: Wth 1.8m; H 0.8m; at N: Wth 5.4m; H 0.5-0.8m) with no facing stones visible. The perimeter at S is overlain by an E-W masonry wall and S of this is reduced to a grass-covered scarp (H 0.6m). A house-site (CL026-023002-) is attached to the perimeter at S.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 3 May 2017
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.