Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Acres (burren By.),tonarussa, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Acres (burren By.),tonarussa
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1915)
- Coordinates
- 53.11116, -9.12885
- SMR number
- CL002-057----
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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 mixed pasture and meadowland on the gentle S-facing downslope of a low E–W ridge. Hachured on the 1842 and 1915 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A very poorly preserved oval rath (int. dims. 24m E–W; 20.9m N–S crest to crest) defined by a low but wide bank (Wth 4.6–6.1m; max. H 0.8m) of earth and stone to which some field clearance stones have been added. There is no trace of an outer fosse or original entrance. The N portion of the interior appears to have been dug out giving a long sloping profile to the inner face of the bank. A townland boundary wall runs NW–SE across the N interior and a ruined field wall overlies the bank at NW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 9 December 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.