Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Clash (magunihy By.), County Kerry, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Franciscan friarsunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.