Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rinecaha, County Clare, Ireland
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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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 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
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.