Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Bushypark, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bushypark
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1921)
- Coordinates
- 52.85596, -9.04815
- SMR number
- CL033-061----
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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
At the crest of a S-facing slope in a karst landscape. A circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 32.2m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by a stone spread (Wth 4.7-7.7m; int. H 0.5m at S to 1.4-1.8m generally; ext. H 1.4-1.6m). Internal and external facing stones can be intermittently seen, especially externally NNW-E (original Wth 3.2m at N and E). There is no visible entrance and the inner face of the wall is re-built ENE-ESE (ext. diam. 36.6m N-S; 32.2m E-W).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 12 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Headstoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.