Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballycorey, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycorey
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Loughgirroga Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Loughgirroga Fort (1921)
- Coordinates
- 52.86570, -8.96961
- SMR number
- CL033-041----
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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 on a low rise within hazel woodland. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A subcircular area (int. dims. 31.6m NE-SW; 28m NW-SE) defined by a stone spread (Wth 3-5.6m; int. H 0.3-1m; ext. H 0.5-1m). No facing stones can be identified and there is no visible entrance. Outside the perimeter at NW there is a second stone spread (Wth 3.5m; H 0.5m).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 May 2016
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.