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Ringfort - rath

Moymore North, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Moymore North, 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
Moymore North
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
52.97466, -9.35313
SMR number
CL015-003----

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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

On a gentle rise in low-lying marshy pasture, immediately N of a small stream. Overlooked by higher ground on all sides. Hachured on the 1840 and 1916 eds. OS 6-inch maps. A bivallate oval rath (est. 66m E-W; 47m N-S) comprising a raised internal area (28m N-S) defined by an inner bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.3-1m; ext. H 2-2.3m) and scarp, a flat-based fosse (Wth 5.5-8m), and an outer bank (Wth 4-6.5m; int. H 0.3-2.6m). To the S the inner bank has been reduced to a scarp and the fosse and outer ditch peter out, and based on orthophotography the monument appears to be truncated here by a post-medieval field drain carrying a small stream. A gap through the inner (Wth 3.1m) and outer (Wth 2m) banks at NNW may be original, although no trace of a causeway is evident. The interior is heavily overgrown, but in the SW sector a low mound is visible, possibly representing a collapsed building. A small drystone structure of probable post-medieval date has been built into the fabric of the outer bank at N.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell

Date of upload: 5 September 2022

Nearby in the register

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

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