Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Loughvella, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughvella
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1921)
- Coordinates
- 52.85572, -9.01551
- SMR number
- CL033-079----
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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 on a slight rise in a karst landscape with a turlough c. 80m to the NW. A circular scrub-covered area (int. diam. 26.2m N-S; 24.3m E-W) defined by a stone spread (Wth 3.4m at E to 6.7m at N; int. H 0.4-0.6m; ext. H 0.2-0.8m generally to 2m at N), which is reduced to a stony scarp (H 0.3m) down to the interior S-SW. Facing stones are intermittently visible, especially outer facing stones at N, but the original width cannot be measured. The original entrance cannot be identified. A rath (CL033-077----) lies c. 70m to the SW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 25 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.