Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Curraderra, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curraderra
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1920)
- Coordinates
- 52.91374, -8.93381
- SMR number
- CL026-039----
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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 slight rise on a gentle SE-facing slope in dense mixed woodland. Hachured as a fort on the 1840 OS 6-inch map and indicated on the 1920 edition. A circular area (int. diam. 33m N-S; 33m E-W) defined by a stone spread (Wth 4-6.4m; int. H 0.4-0.8m; ext. H 0.45-0.6m generally to 1m at W) with the remains of a field wall on the top of it. A relict field wall extends S across the interior from the perimeter at N (L 8m) and a relict wall encloses an arc (int. dims. 11m NE-SW; 5m NW-SE) against the perimeter in the SE quadrant.
Compiled by: Michael Moore and Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 17 November 2025
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.