Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Dangan (bunratty Upper By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dangan (bunratty Upper By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1921)
- Coordinates
- 52.83036, -8.80068
- SMR number
- CL035-091----
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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
On a generally level area, in mixed woodland. A circular area (24m N-S; 25m E-W) defined by a collapsed stone wall (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.55m; Wth at top 1.2m; overall Wth 4.8m) which is covered in moss and ivy with trees growing intermittently. Noted by Discovery Programme staff (2006) to have a possible entrance gap (Wth 0.8m) flanked by two small uprights, at NE. The interior is generally level, with an uneven surface due to a scatter of loose stones and two areas of rock outcrop having loose stones in the centre. The interior is becoming overgrown with vegetation including bushes and trees, some of which have fallen. A field boundary (long-axis NNW-SSE) is c. 7m to E of monument.
The following images have been uploaded:
CL035-091----_01.jpg From E. Monument is within woodland c. 7m from the boundary wall with pasture field.
CL035-091----_02.jpg From S. Cross sectional view of bank at W.
CL035-091----_03.jpg From W. Cross sectional view of bank at N.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 14 March 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.