Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballymaclinaun, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymaclinaun
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.94241, -9.42075
- SMR number
- CL014-022----
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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 wet pasture, with wide views out to S. Hachured on the OS 25-inch plan (1897) and Cassini edition (1920) of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This circular rath (int. dims. 27m N-S; 26m E-W) is defined by a round-topped earth and stone bank (Wth 2-4.8m; int. H 0.1-0.3m; ext. H 0.5-0.9m), with traces of an external fosse surviving at NE (Wth 4-6m; D 0.15m) and SW (Wth 2-3m; D 0.15m). The bank is cut by livestock gaps at SW (Wth 0.2m) and SE (Wth 0.25m) and a very large gap (Wth 9m) has been cut through the bank at E with spoil at each end of the gap probably consisting of material removed from the original enclosing bank. At SE, a band of rushes marks the line of the largely infilled fosse.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 6-10-2025
Nearby in the register
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.