Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballygastell, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygastell
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.03125, -9.25574
- SMR number
- CL008-139----
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
In reclaimed pasture. A subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 28m) defined by a bank, visible on Google Earth satellite imagery (© Google Earth, imagery date 23 January 2010), was identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère.
The following image has been attached:
CL008-139----_01.jpg Google Earth historic image, date 23 January 2010.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 16 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.