Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Rinecaha, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rinecaha
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.00056, -8.95293
- SMR number
- CL011-040----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 gentle W-facing slope in pasture at the NE end of a narrow spit of land extending SW into Ballyeighter Lough. A possible ring-barrow (max. diam. c. 14m) defined by a fosse and outer bank visible on OSi MapGenie 2013-2018 orthophotography. A second possible ring-barrow (CL011-041----) lies c. 18m to the SW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 18 November 2025
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.