Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Doonyvardan, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doonyvardan
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.05976, -9.20065
- SMR number
- CL005-112----
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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 top of a natural knoll and surrounded on all sides by damp boggy ground planted with forestry. Hachured on the 1842 and 1916 eds of the 6-inch OS maps. Listed as an ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). A moderately well-preserved circular bivallate rath (est. diam. 54m; int. dims. 17m E-W; 15m N-S) defined by an inner bank (Wth 5m; int. H 0.5-0.8m; ext. H 1.6-2.2m), a rush-filled fosse (Wth 1.8-2.6m) and an outer bank that survives as a scarp from NNE-SW (int. H 0.4-0.5m). An enclosure (CL005-280----) overlooks the site from on top of an outcropping bluff, c. 100m to the S.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 27 February 2023
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.