Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballycarroll, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycarroll
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ballycarroll Caher (1920)
- Coordinates
- 52.90428, -8.95864
- SMR number
- CL026-026----
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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
Situated on the E edge of a NE-SW ridge with rock outcrop. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A circular grass- and scrub-covered area (int. diam. 22m E-W) defined by an overgrown stone spread (at W: Wth 4m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.6m; at E: Wth 12m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.6m) with the original wall visible (Wth 2-2.4m; int. H 0.8-1.1m; ext. H 1.3-1.6m), especially S-W. There is no visible entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 3 May 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.