Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lismacteige, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lismacteige
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.10099, -9.19611
- SMR number
- CL005-020----
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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
Under hazel overgrowth, near the SW foot of Cappanawalla Hill, with views from S-NW over the valley floor and Rathborney River. Indicated on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and hachured on the 1916 ed. It may be one of two forts described by Westropp (1901, 277) as ‘two greatly defaced forts’. Listed as a cashel in the RMP (1996). A very overgrown and largely inaccessible circular ringfort (diam. c. 25m [from map]) defined by a bank of earth and stone from E-SE (Wth 4-5m; H 0.4-1m) with some internal facing (H 0.3m) evident at E, and a low narrow bank covered by brambles and branches from SW-NW. Where clearest, at W, the interior is generally flat.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 25 January 2022
References
Westropp, T.J 1901 Prehistoric remains in north-western Clare, part I. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 31, 1-17.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.