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Ringfort - rath

Carrowduff (Killaspuglonane ED), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Carrowduff, 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
Carrowduff (Killaspuglonane ED)
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
52.98169, -9.35131
SMR number
CL015-004----

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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 marshy pasture, on a gentle S-facing slope with clear views to the S, overlooked by higher ground to W, c. 50m east of a stream. Hachured on the 1840 and 1916 eds. OS 6-inch maps. A bivallate circular rath (est. diam. 22m) defined by an inner bank (Wth 1.5-2.5m; H 0.1-0.25m), a fosse (Wth 1.9-2.6m; int. D 0.25-0.55m), and an outer bank (Wth 2-3m; ext. H 0.35-0.5m). A gap (Wth 1.8m) at SE in the inner bank may indicate an original entrance. The interior slopes gently down to S. The entire W part of the site is heavily overgrown and a NW-SE field boundary may truncate the site in this area. The interior is covered in rushes.

The following image has been uploaded:
CL015-004----_01.jpg Aerial view of rath (ASI aerial photo, SMR file)

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.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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