Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Shanvogh, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shanvogh
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1921)
- Coordinates
- 52.84772, -9.02409
- SMR number
- CL033-071----
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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 at the W edge of a low plateau overlooking the valley of a SW-NE stream, c. 120m to the SW. A circular overgrown area (int. dims. c. 27m E-W; 24.1m N-S) defined by a stone spread (at N: Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.8m), with a drystone wall on the perimeter W-NNE. There are no visible facing stones, and the only gap at NE is not original. The interior is overlain by remnants of drystone field walls, and the outer edge of the perimeter is ovarlain by field spoil E-NW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 25 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.