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
- 52.83587, -8.78634
- SMR number
- CL035-109----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.