Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Bishopsquarter, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bishopsquarter
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.12123, -9.12406
- SMR number
- CL002-015----
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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
On good quality level meadowland at the SE foot of a low ridge. A poorly preserved oval rath (int. dims. 36m NW–SE; 32m ENE–WSW crest to crest) defined by a low and generally flat-topped earthen bank (ext. H 0.3–0.7m; int. H 0.3–0.9m). There is no visible trace of an outer fosse or entrance and later field walls traverse the site. The site is overlooked by an ecclesiastical enclosure and associated remains (CL002-014001-to CL002-014004-) c. 150m to the N.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 2 December 2020
Nearby in the register
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.