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Ringfort - rath

Newtown (Burren By.), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Newtown, 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
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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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 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

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

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