Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Craggaun, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Craggaun
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1922)
- Coordinates
- 52.79812, -9.47146
- SMR number
- CL038-022----
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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
At the highest point of an E-W ridge. Listed as enclosure in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 37m E-W; 34m N-S) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 2.7-4m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.3-0.8m) SE-NW, which is rebuilt as a drystone wall (Wth 1m; int. H 0.8-1.5m; ext. H 1-1.5m) on the line of the original or inside it NW-SE. N-S and E-W drystone walls combine with the re-built perimeter to create a small corral on the site. The entrance cannot be identified, but there is hollow (diam. 2.8m; D 0.35m) at the centre.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 15 April 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.