Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballymaconna, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymaconna
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1920)
- Coordinates
- 52.90117, -8.92402
- SMR number
- CL026-049----
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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 a terrace on the N-facing slope of an E-W ridge. Circular overgrown area (int. diam. 24m E-W) defined by an ivy and moss-covered stone spread (Wth 4.8-5.5m; int. H 0.5-0.7m; ext. H 0.9-1m) which is reduced to a stone-covered scarp (Wth 2,8m; H 0.8m) overlain by a field wall E-W. There is no visible stone-facing or entrance, but there is rock outcrop in the interior and some cairns S and W of the centre. Earthwork site (CL026-050----) is c. 100m to the E.
Compiled by: Michael Moore and Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 17 November 2025
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.