Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Castletown (burren By.),tullycommon, County Clare, Ireland
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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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
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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Caveunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.