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Ringfort - rath

Fanore Beg, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Fanore Beg, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Fanore Beg
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1915)
Coordinates
53.10474, -9.29166
SMR number
CL004-016003-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 a flat fertile terrace on the W slopes of a ridge with extensive views from S–NW. Hachured on the 1842 and 1915 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A fairly well-preserved roughly circular rath (int. dims. 33m NNE–SSW; 34m WNW–ESE) defined by a stone and earthen bank (Wth 5m; H 1–1.3m) and fosse (Wth at base 2.5m; D 0.4m) best preserved from WNW to N. Possible causeways cross the fosse to the SW and NW, and it is not visible from N to SE. The interior is cut by a wall extending WNW-ESE of roughly dressed stone and mortar. To its S, the bank of the rath has been reduced to a scarp (max. H 0.7m). An ancient-looking overgrown bank meets the edge of the site at ESE. This rath is located at the W extent of an extensive multiperiod field system (CL004-016001-), covering an area of c. 8km square.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin

Date of upload: 22 February 2021

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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