Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballykeel North,ballyshanny, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballykeel North,ballyshanny
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.00789, -9.21601
- SMR number
- CL009-176----
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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 a hollow on a S-facing slope in rough pasture and rushes, with a flat boggy shelf immediately to the S and a shallow fold to the NW. This circular rath (22.8m E-W; c. 22.4m N-S) is defined from W to NE by a scarp (H 0.4m) and elsewhere intermittently by a bank (Wth 4.6m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.6m). The E side (L 15m) and S side are truncated by field drains and there are several quarry faces (max. H 1.5m) along the S perimeter.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 11 July 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.