Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kineilty, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kineilty
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.94541, -9.43098
- SMR number
- CL014-017----
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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 pasture on a gentle S-facing slope with wide views over Liscannor Bay to the S. Hachured on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1920) editions of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This subcircular rath (diams. 28m NW-SE; 25m NE-SW) is defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1-3m; int. H 0.1-0.15m; ext. H 0.25-0.4m) which is topped by a modern stone wall from NW-NE-SE. Several piles of field clearance rubble lie along the perimeter of the site at W while at S a bank of rubble stone (Wth 1.6m) suggests that the enclosure may have been a stone cashel, a suggestion supported by the apparent absence of an enclosing fosse. A livestock track runs through the enclosing element at SE. The interior is slightly dished and, apart from some overgrowth on the perimeter, is generally free of such growth.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 3-10-2025
Nearby in the register
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 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.