Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Loughrask, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughrask
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.11650, -9.12926
- SMR number
- CL002-099----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Situated on a SW-facing slope in the middle of an otherwise tilled field. A subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) defined by a bank and visible on Google Earth (image taken 20 March 2020). This monument was reported to the National Monuments Service by Jean Charles Caillère.
The following image has been uploaded:
CL002-099----_01.jpg Google Earth image, 20 March 2020.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 4 October 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.