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Ringfort - unclassified

Cragnagower, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - unclassified, Cragnagower, 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
Cragnagower
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
52.83697, -9.04947
SMR number
CL033-195----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

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 on a gentle E-facing slope in pasture. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) defined by a bank is visible on Digital Globe satellite imagery (c. 2010) with a possible entrance at SE. Indicated on the 1921 OS 6-inch map as a subcircular field. A Google Earth image (2020) shows the E sector has been removed. An area of unreclaimed scrub lying immediately to the N may contain associated features. This possible ringfort was reported to the National Monuments Service by David Galvin.

The following images have been uploaded:
CL033-195----_01.jpg Digital Globe image
CL033-195----_02.jpg Google Earth image (taken 19 January 2020)

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 28 September 2020

Nearby in the register

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

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