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Ringfort - rath

Faunarooska (Rathborney ED), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Faunarooska, 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
Faunarooska (Rathborney ED)
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
53.09688, -9.20808
SMR number
CL005-014003-

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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

In extensively cleared pasture on a broad N-S ridge c. 300m W of the Rathborney River, within a large multiperiod field system (CL005-014001-).
A large oval, bivallate rath (ext. diams. 56m E-W; 45m N-S) is defined by the remains of two, concentric, stone-faced earthen banks and an intervening fosse. Gaps in both banks at ESE are likely the original entrance. The inner bank (Wth 2-3.3m; int. H 0.1-0.75m; ext. H 0.5-0.65m) has remnants of internal (H 0.3m) and external (0.2m) facing atones, giving an original width of 1.45m at N. The outer bank (Wth 1.4-3.7m; ext. H 0.3-0.4m) has been pushed into the fosse from SW to N and while the fosse can be read around the full circuit in aerial and satellite imagery it is only visible topographically from N to SW. Stone facing (H 0.3m) is visible on the external face of the outer bank at E.
The level, grassed interior contains a possible hut-site (CL005-014014-) to the SE of centre.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and by Ros Ó Maoldúin

Date of upload: 29 July 2022

Nearby in the register

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

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