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Ringfort - cashel

Clash (Magunihy By.), County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Clash, County Kerry, 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
Clash (Magunihy By.)
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
52.04538, -9.45825
SMR number
KE067-097001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1868 · 4. 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 level pasture on the E bank of the Flesk River. This possible cashel is indicated on the 1846 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) in a wooded area and on the 1893-4 OS 6-inch map as an oval enclosure (c. 35m NW-SE; c. 30m NE-SW) also in a wooded area. It is now evident as a densely overgrown oval mound (c. 40m N-S; c. 35m E-W). According to local information, stones were removed from here in the recent past. It is known locally as a children's burial ground (KE067-097----) called 'Cahireenaleanbh'. In the 1940s a place called 'Cahireen na Leanbh' was recorded as 'a circle surrounded by a stone wall' which was used as a burial ground (Schools Manuscript, Co. Kerry).

Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.

Date of upload: 31 January 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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