Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynalackan (ballysteen Ed), County Clare, Ireland
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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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 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
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.