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Ringfort - rath

Ballyhomulta, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballyhomulta, 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
Ballyhomulta
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
53.01057, -9.19391
SMR number
CL009-099003-

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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

In reclaimed pasture at the E end of a ridge named Knockacarn, with wide views from NE to SW. Hachured on the 1897 OS 25-inch plan and 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This circular rath (int. dims. 28.4m N-S; 27.3m E-W; ext. dims. 50m E-W; 35.5m N-S) is defined by two low scarps (H 0.2m each) with an intervening berm (Wth 3-4m). There are traces of a possible outer fosse at between E and SE. A later field wall overlies the inner scarp from WNW to ENE. A field bank and ditches cut the enclosing elements from SW to W. Another rath (CL009-099002-) and cairn (CL009-099001-) lie c. 30m and c. 80m to the W respectively.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 26 May 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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