Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tulla (inchiquin By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tulla (inchiquin By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.06866, -8.94857
- SMR number
- CL007-006----
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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
At the S end of a low narrow N-S ridge in pasture with ground falling away gently to E, S and W. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). Hachured on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch maps.
A very poorly preserved ringfort, now D-shaped in plan (int. dims. 26.2m E–W; 19.7m N–S) due to quarrying at W. It is defined by a low, grass-covered, earthen bank (Wth 4.4–7.1m; ext. H 0.3–0.8m; int. H 0.1–0.5m) from NNW to SSW, with possible inner facing-stones at NE, and elsewhere by a low scarp (H 1.3m). Stones cleared from the surrounding field are dumped on the enclosing bank at N. The interior is level and under pasture and there is no obvious trace of an original entrance.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 30 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.