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
- 52.90389, -8.92155
- SMR number
- CL026-052----
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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
Situated in a low-lying landscape with much rock outcrop. Hachured as a circular enclosure on the 1840 and 1920 OS 6-inch maps. A circular overgrown area (int. diam. 27m N-S; 24m E-W) defined by an overgrown stone spread (Wth 5.5-8.5m; int. H 0.5-1m; ext. H 0.3m at SSE to 1.3-1.8m generally) which is overlain by a drystone wall, but some outer facing is visible E-S. There is a cairn (diam. 3m; H 0.9m) N of the centre.
Compiled by: Michael Moore and Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 17 November 2025
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 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.