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Ringfort - cashel

Erinagh Beg, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Erinagh Beg, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Erinagh Beg
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1921)
Coordinates
52.86745, -9.04240
SMR number
CL033-020----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 slight rise on the undulating floor of an E-W valley. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A subcircular overgrown area (int. dims. 40.9m E-W; 46.1m N-S) defined by an overgrown stone spread (Wth 6.5-7m; int. H 0.4-0.9m; ext. H 0.5-1.2m) with occasional facing stones visible (Wth 1.5m at ENE). The perimeter is overlain by a drystone field wall NW-N and field spoil obscures the outer edge of the stone spread NW-SE. The original entrance cannot be identified, and the interior is overlain by curved field walls at E and W. There is a hut-site (int. diam. 5.55m E-W; 5.5m N-S) defined by a double-faced wall (Wth 1.2m at E) and spill (Wth 2.4-3.2m) in the N interior, but its entrance is not visible.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 23 May 2016

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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