Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cragard, Carrowdotia, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cragard, Carrowdotia
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1920)
- Coordinates
- 52.89813, -8.93392
- SMR number
- CL026-037----
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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
On a N and NW slope in fertile pasture with views mainly confined to the W. Hachured on the 1920 OS 6-inch map. A circular area (int. diam. 23m N-S; 20m E-W) defined by a stone spread (Wth 4-6m; int. H 0.2-0.6m; ext. H 0.6-1.2m) with some inner and outer facing stones (dims. 0.4m x 0.7m; H 0.3m) NNE-E (Wth of wall 1.6-1.8m), and at W. A drystone wall (the townland boundary with Craggard) overlies the NE part of the interior. Faint traces of an outer enclosing element are visible on OS MapGenie orthophotographs (2006-2012).
Compiled by: Michael Moore and Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 17 November 2025
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.