Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyherragh, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyherragh
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.93523, -9.47014
- SMR number
- CL014-008----
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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 wet pasture with higher ground to the N and a sea cliff c. 100m to the NW. Hachured on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1920) editions of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This well-preserved circular bivallate rath (int. diams. 23.5m E-W; 22.4m N-S; ext. diams. 42.3 N-S; 41.3m E-W) is defined by an inner and outer bank with an intervening fosse. The round-topped, steep-sided inner bank (Wth 2.8-4.6m; int. H 0.2-0.35m; ext. H 1-1.15m) has several slabs lying against its inner face at SE, suggesting a stone revetment. There is an entrance gap (Wth 4.1m) at E. The fosse (max. Wth 4.5m; Wth at base 1m) is flat-bottomed and steep-sided (av. D 1m below top of inner bank; D 0.45m below top of outer bank). The lower, outer bank (av. Wth 3.8m; int. H 0.45m over base of fosse; max. ext. H 0.35m) is reduced to a scarp at E. A field system (CL104-009002-) c. 12m to the E runs around the N side of the rath, and an enclosure (CL014-009----) lies c. 76m to the NE.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 3-10-2025
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.