Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gortnaboul, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnaboul
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.98562, -9.26334
- SMR number
- CL015-035----
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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 rise in undulating marshy pasture with good views. Hachured on 1916 OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A rath comprising a low circular platform (diam. 28m; H 1-1.2m) defined by a gentle scarp (Wth 4-5m) which has been levelled to the S. The interior is level with no visible features.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 3 July 2023
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.