Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ballylannidy,kilquane (islands By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballylannidy,kilquane (islands By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1921)
- Coordinates
- 52.84320, -9.03009
- SMR number
- CL033-066----
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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 level ground at the bottom of a W-facing slope in reclaimed pasture. Indicated as a circular walled enclosure (diam. c. 40m) only on the 1921 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is not visible at ground level apart from part of the perimeter at E (C 17m) where it is visible as a stone spread (Wth 4m; int. H 1m; ext. H 0.5m) surmounted by a drystone wall attached to a road wall.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 17 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.