Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyallaban, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyallaban
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.09535, -9.16243
- SMR number
- CL005-035002-
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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
On a S-facing slope near the NW edge of a turlough in improved pasture. Hachured on the 1916 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A very heavily overgrown rath, so densely overgrown that inspection in 1998 did not manage to obtain overall dimensions. The enclosing element was accessible at N and comprised a bank (Wth 3m; H 0.8m) with a platform or berm (Wth 2m; H 0.9m) against its exterior. From aerial and satellite imagery it would appear to be c. 25m in diameter.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 26 January 2022
Nearby in the register
- Canalunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.