Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Gorteen (dangan Ed), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gorteen (dangan Ed)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1921)
- Coordinates
- 52.83021, -8.79687
- SMR number
- CL035-098----
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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 low rise, in a small, rectangular woodland plot with pasture to the immediate N, E and S and a farmyard abutting to W. A circular area (c. 24.5m N-S; c. 24m E-W) defined by the remains of a collapsed stone wall (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.45m; Wth at top 1.3m; overall Wth 8.05m) which is very broad. A field wall (long-axis NE-SW) appears to be built on top of the enclosing elements SE-S. No obvious entrance could be noted due to dense overgrowth. The interior is very overgrown with mature thorn trees and is largely inaccessible except across a limited portion of the E sector. There is a lot of rock outcrop and loose stones scattered within. Round bales in the farmyard abut the monument at W.
The following images have been uploaded:
CL035-098----_01.jpg From WNW. General view of monument from farmyard.
CL035-098----_02.jpg From ENE. Oblique cross-sectional view of enclosing elements at E.
CL035-098----_03.jpg From E. View across impenetrable interior.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 20 March 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.