Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killoghil, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killoghil
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1915)
- Coordinates
- 53.11765, -9.11986
- SMR number
- CL002-060----
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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 meadowland on a gentle SW-facing slope, at the W foot of Moneen ‘Mountain’. Hachured on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A poorly preserved subcircular rath (int. dims. 27.9m E–W; 25.6m N–S crest to crest) defined by a low earthen bank (Wth at base 3.9–6.5m; H 0.3–0.8m) with no obvious trace of an entrance or outer fosse. Several large boulders form the outer base of the bank at WSW but are not visible elsewhere. The site of a disused graveyard (CL002-059----) is c. 240m to the NNW, approximately centrally located between this and two other raths (CL002-015---- and CL002-061----), which are c.420m WNW and c. 415m ENE. A medieval church (CL002-014002-) and associated remains are located c.650m WNW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 9 December 2020
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.