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Ringfort - rath

Aughiska Beg, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Aughiska Beg, 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
Aughiska Beg
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Knockalassa Fort (1916)
Coordinates
53.01819, -9.30476
SMR number
CL008-080----

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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 a low hillock, in undulating, coniferous forestry, in an area of rough pasture and bog. A nearby stream flows anticlockwise around the site (c. 70m to the N; c. 110m to the W and c. 120m to the S). Hachured and named 'Knockalassa Fort' on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1920) editions of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as 'Ringfort' in the RMP (1996). This circular rath (diam. 39.5m) is defined by a low, round-topped, earthen bank and an external fosse. The enclosing bank is best preserved (Wth 2.4m; int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.45m) W-N; from SE-S, the bank is reduced to a low scarp (H 0.25m). While there are several gaps in the bank, one (Wth 4.5m) at E may be an original entrance since there is no obvious trace of the fosse in this area. Elsewhere, the fosse is visible as a poorly defined, shallow depression (Wth 1-2m; D 0.1-0.2m) ESE-N, and its line (Wth 1.5m) is preserved as a vegetation band of reeds and rushes N-ENE. The interior of the monument is slightly higher (max. 0.5m) at the centre than at the perimeter.

Summary by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 24 November 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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