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Ringfort - cashel

Dangan (Bunratty Upper By.), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Dangan, 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
Dangan (Bunratty Upper By.)
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1921)
Coordinates
52.83236, -8.81338
SMR number
CL035-082----

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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

On the S-facing slope of a ridge (long-axis c. NE-SW), in mixed woodland, having good views NE-NW and overlooked by a cashel (CL035-083----) c. 40m to NE. Listed in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996) as 'Enclosure'. A circular area (28m NE-SW; 26m NW-SE) defined by a substantial stone wall (int. H 1.2m; ext. H 1.6m; Wth at top 1.5m; overall Wth 8.6m) which is covered in moss and light vegetation. There is a gap (base Wth 4m; overall Wth 6.5m) at S. A trackway (long-axis NE-SW) skirts the exterior of the monument at ESE. The interior is accessible and has a gentle S-facing slope. Some relatively young trees are located within the interior, on the bank and around the exterior. A small quarried depression is adjacent to the bank exterior at NW.

The following images have been uploaded:
CL035-082----_01.jpg From NW. Cross-sectional view of bank at SW.
CL035-082----_02.jpg From SW. General view of monument.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 13 March 2018

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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