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Ringfort - rath

Ballynalackan (Ballysteen ED), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballynalackan, 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
Ballynalackan (Ballysteen ED)
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
52.94494, -9.44754
SMR number
CL014-015----

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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

On a gentle S-facing slope in rough boggy pasture, with wide views to S over Liscannor Bay. Hachured on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1920) editions of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This circular rath (int. diams. 30m E-W; 29m N-S) is defined by a low earthen bank (max. int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.15-0.35m; Wth 2-4.5m), overlain at NNW by a later stone wall. Several stone slabs set against the inner face of the bank may be the remains of a revetment and a faint depression outside the bank at E suggests the presence of an external fosse. There are several gaps (av. Wth 1.3m) in the bank from E-S-SW, none of which are clearly the remains of an original entrance feature but rather appear to be livestock gaps. There is a mound (CL014-014----) c. 95m to the WSW.

 

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott

 

Date of upload: 3-10-2025

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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