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Ringfort - rath

Castletown (Burren By.),Tullycommon, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Castletown, Tullycommon, 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
Castletown (Burren By.),Tullycommon
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
53.01925, -9.07516
SMR number
CL010-061----

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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

On a slight rise in gently undulating improved pasture, with commanding views in most directions – particularly towards the S where Cahercommaun cashel (CL010-064003-) is visible c. 570m to the SE. Hachured on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1920) editions of the OS 6-inch map. This subcircular rath (int. diams. 20m E-W; 18.5m N-S; ext. dims. 32m N-S; 31m E-W) is defined by a broad bank (Wth 6.6-7m; int. H 0.6-1.4m; ext. H 0.8-1.6m) which is overgrown with briar and blackthorn SSW-NNW. A later field wall (part of the townland boundary with Castletown to the W) runs along the inner edge of the bank SSW-NNW and cleared field stones have been piled on the bank NNW-E. An overgrown gap (Wth 2m) at the SSW may be the original entrance. The interior is generally flat. Levelled, grass-covered field walls are visible in satellite imagery (Digital Globe 2011-2013) radiating off the rath at N and SSE.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 31 March 2023

Nearby in the register

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

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