Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killaspuglonane, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killaspuglonane
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.95576, -9.33176
- SMR number
- CL015-063----
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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 slight rise in low-lying scrubby pasture c.70m NW of the Dealagh River, partially truncated by a road to the SW leading to the adjacent New Bridge. Hachured on the 1840 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. A bivallate rath (int. diam. 23m E-W; 20m NNW-SSE) defined by an inner earthen bank (ext. H c. 0.95-1.85m) surmounted by a stone wall, a round-bottomed fosse (Wth 9m; ext. H 0.65-1m), and an outer bank (Wth 3-9m; ext. H 1-2m). The inner bank in overlain by a collapsed stone wall 2-3 courses high visible intermittently from the E to the SW (Wth 1.5-1.6m; H 0.15-0.2m). The SW part of the enclosing elements have been truncated by the adjacent road and the banks and fosse have been reduced to two scarps and a berm from N to ENE. No clear entrance is visible. The interior slopes gently down to the SE and is densely overgrown.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 14 August 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.