Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Newtown (burren By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (burren By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.10571, -9.15669
- SMR number
- CL005-042----
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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
On slightly elevated land and at the juncture of two roads in Ballyvaughan valley. Hachured on the 1840 and 1916 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. List as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). A partially destroyed rath (est. diam. c. 30m) defined from NNE to ENE by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; H 0.5m) and from W to NNE by a scarp (H 0.8m). From E to SW road construction has probably removed its enclosing elements and from SW to W it is too overgrown to examine. There is a slight circular hollow (diam. 2.5m) W of centre but no definite evidence of a souterrain. A paved trackway skirts the external perimeter from NW to NE, and there are steps and a shed immediately outside the E sector. Another rath (CL005-043----) is located c. 130m to the N.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 16 February 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.