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Ringfort - rath

Kineilty, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Kineilty, 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
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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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

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

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

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