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Ringfort - cashel

Kilnacally, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Kilnacally, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Kilnacally
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1921)
Coordinates
52.83796, -9.02017
SMR number
CL033-075----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated at the outer edge of a shelf on a SE-facing slope with the SW-NE Claureen River c. 120m to the SE. A circular overgrown area (diam. c. 30m) defined by a stone spread (at N: Wth 3m; H 0.4-0.8m; at E: Wth 2m; H 0.4m). There are no visible facing stones and an original entrance was not identified.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 25 April 2017

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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