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Ringfort - rath

Crosscornaun, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Crosscornaun, 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
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----

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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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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