Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Kilquane (islands By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilquane (islands By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1921)
- Coordinates
- 52.84140, -9.03367
- SMR number
- CL033-065----
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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
Marked as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on the 1842 and 1921 eds. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on an undulating landscape. By the 1980s it had been reduced to a stretch of wall at S (L c. 30m; Wth c. 2m; H c. 1-8m) (Rynne 1995, 171-2) which still survives as an overgrown stoney mound (c. 30m E-W; 8-9m N-S; H 2-2.7m) but no facing stones are visible. Archaeological testing c. 10m S of this failed to produce any related material (Crumlish 1999, 17).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 12 April 2017
References
Rynne, E. 1995 A destroyed cashel near Ennis (note). North Munster Antiquarian Journal 36, 171-2.
Crumlish, R. 2000 Kilquane/Ballylannidy. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1999: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 17. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.