Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Racorcraun, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Racorcraun
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1920)
- Coordinates
- 52.89305, -8.92718
- SMR number
- CL026-044----
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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
On the S and E-facing slopes of a hillock. Hachured on the 1840 and 1920 OS 6-inch maps. A subcircular area (int. diam. 26m N-S; 23m E-W) defined by a broad scrub-covered stone spread (Wth 6.5-9m; int. H 0.5-0.8m; ext. H 0.4-0.8m S-W to 1.2-1.4m N-E). Original inner facing (H 0.4m) survives at N and S. There is a cattle gap (Wth 1.4m) at ESE, but the original entrance is not evident. An enclosure (CL026-045----) is on lower ground c. 55m to the NE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore and Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 17 November 2025
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.