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Ringfort - rath

Carrowkeel (Corcomroe By.), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Carrowkeel, 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
Carrowkeel (Corcomroe By.)
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Liscooleen (1916)
Coordinates
52.98902, -9.29253
SMR number
CL015-025----

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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 the summit of a prominent hillock with clear views in all directions. Hachured on the 1840 and 1916 eds. OS 6-inch maps and named ‘Liscooleen’ on the latter map. A rath (29m N-S; 26.25m E-W) defined by a bank (ext. H 1-2.5m), a fosse (Wth 1m), with an outer bank (L 7m; Wth 2m; H 0.6m) at SSE, and an outer scarp with stones along its edge from W to NE forming a berm (Wth 3.5m). The inner bank is lowest at SE, and the outer bank may form part of an entrance feature here. Quarrying of the bank is evident at SW. The interior is flat with a dense covering of rushes.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell

Date of upload: 29 June 2023

Nearby in the register

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

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