Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Slievenageeragh, Kineilty, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Slievenageeragh, Kineilty
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.96024, -9.43952
- SMR number
- CL014-031----
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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 gently SSE-sloping boggy pasture, above The Cliffs of Moher c. 85m to the NNW. Identified in 1998 by Markus Casey. This subcircular rath (int. dims. 41m NW-SE; 39.5m NE-SW) is defined by a low earthen bank (int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.25m; av. Wth 3.1m) and a shallow outer fosse (ext. D 0.1m; Wth 2.5m). The SW sector of the rath may be slightly truncated where a high field wall – the townland boundary between Kineilty and Slievenageeragh - runs NW-SE, with no traces of the rath’s enclosing element visible on the SW (Kineilty) side of this wall. The interior is featureless apart from a low grassed-over earthen rise in the centre of the site and is clear of excess vegetation.
Compiled by Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 6-10-2025
Nearby in the register
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.