Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Moarhaun, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moarhaun
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1921)
- Coordinates
- 52.86925, -9.05255
- SMR number
- CL033-017----
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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 rise on the floor of an E-W valley. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). Sub-triangular grass and scrub-covered area (int. dims. 26.5m E-W; 22.4m N-S) with a straight side at E and an acute angle at the SW. It is defined by a drystone wall (Wth 0.6m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.2m) W-N, a stone spread (Wth c. 3m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1.7m) at N, and a re-built but overgrown wall (Wth c. 2m; H 1m) N-SE. At S the wall is obscured by spoil. There are modern entrances at ESE (Wth 1.1m) and at NE, where the original width of the wall (1.8m) can be seen with original facing stones.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 23 May 2016
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.