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Ringfort - rath

Ballyteige, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballyteige, 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
Ballyteige
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.02096, -9.26647
SMR number
CL008-084----

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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 hilltop in pasture. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the RMP (1996). This subcircular rath (33.2m N-S; 30.5m E-W) is defined E-S-NW by a low, earthen bank (int. H 0.15; ext. H 0.85m; Wth 1.8m) and a flat-bottomed outer fosse (Wth 1.1-1.8m), with traces of a second, low, outer bank (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.15m; Wth 2m) visible E-SSE. A dip in the enclosing bank at E with a corresponding shallower portion of fosse outside may indicate the location of an original, causewayed entrance. The interior slopes gently to the SE. A modern house, driveway and outbuilding abut the monument NNW-N-ENE.

See attachment: CL008-084----_01.jpg Monument viewed from west

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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