Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyhomulta, County Clare, Ireland
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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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 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.