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Ringfort - cashel

Gorteen (Dangan ED), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Gorteen, 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
Gorteen (Dangan ED)
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1921)
Coordinates
52.83587, -8.78634
SMR number
CL035-109----

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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

In gently undulating, ungrazed, dense natural woodland. Depicted on OS historic mapping as a subcircular enclosure (c. 48m NE-SW; 47m NW-SE). The monument is predominantly obscured by blackthorn thickets within the interior and whitethorn around the enclosing elements. A short arc of the enclosing elements are visible at W, otherwise the monument is engulfed by impenetrable vegetation. This arc of collapsed drystone wall (int. H 1.0m; ext. H 0.35m; Wth at top 2.6m; overall Wth 7.8m) is exposed SW-NW and appears to continue into the wilderness of thickets at either end. A drystone field wall (long-axis NW-SE) is located c. 8m to W.

The following images have been uploaded:
CL035-109----_01.jpg From NW. Oblique view of cross-section of stone bank at W.
CL035-109----_02.jpg From W. General view into densely overgrown and impenetrable interior.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 29 January 2018

Nearby in the register

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

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