Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Crosscornaun, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Crosscornaun
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.00050, -9.27961
- SMR number
- CL008-095----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Near the top of a rise in wet pasture and bog, with higher ground to the W but otherwise offering wide views. Partly hachured on the OS 25-inch plan (1897) and on the later, Cassini edition (1920) of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the RMP (1996). A subcircular area (48.7m ENE-WSW; 46.7m NNW-SSE) is defined by a low scarp (0.3-0.8m) of earth and stone, with large boulders along its upper edge NW-NE which may be the remains of a stone revetment. A slight bank is traceable along the top of the scarp SW-WNW. A very faint depression (D 0.1m; Wth 1.5m at SW) outside the scarp SW-NW may be the remains of an external fosse, also represented N-NE by a vegetation band of rushes (Wth 2-3m). The monument is subdivided by a modern stone wall running NNE-SSW.
See attachment: CL008-095----_01.jpg Ground view of monument from NW.
Summary by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 2 December 2022
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.