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Ringfort - rath

Rinecaha, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Rinecaha, 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
Rinecaha
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
52.99681, -8.94966
SMR number
CL011-020----

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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 level pasture c. 250m E of Ballyeighter Lough. Hachured on both the first edition (1842) and later, Cassini edition (1916) of the OS 6-inch map. This subcircular rath (int. diams. 27m WNW-ESE; 23.2m NNE-SSW; ext. diams. 35.8m WNW-ESE; 30m NNE-SSW) is defined by a broad earthen bank which is best preserved W-N (Wth 4-6.4m; int. H 0.5-0.7m; ext. H 0.5m), but reduced elsewhere to a low scarp (H 0.5-0.8m) with a slight bank (int. H 0.2-0.5m; Wth 1.7-2.7m) along its top. There is a livestock gap at NNW and the enclosing bank is covered with fist-sized fieldstones and occasional boulders – the result of field clearance - and is overgrown with trees and bushes. A later field wall runs WNW-ESE over the S edge of the interior and another field wall overlies the enclosing bank NE-SSE.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 13 January 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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