Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballingaddy East, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballingaddy East
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.95718, -9.30557
- SMR number
- CL015-070001-
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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
In pasture on the top of a prominent ridge with panoramic views c. 200m N of a stream. Hachured on the 1840 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. A subcircular rath (21.5m E-W; 19m N-S) defined by a low earthen bank (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.6-1.15m) and a fosse (Wth 2-2.3m). The bank has been reduced to a scarp (H 0.8m) at SE, S and NW. The fosse is legible as a shallow reed-covered depression. No entrance gap or causeway survives. The interior is dished and slopes gently down to the NNW, with no visible features. There is a rath (CL015-070002-) c. 30m to the ENE.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 15 August 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.