Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballymacravan, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymacravan
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.96511, -9.27649
- SMR number
- CL015-075----
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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 pasture on a slight rise in level marshy ground c. 70m S of a stream that forms the townland boundary. Hachured on the 1840 and 1916 eds. OS 6-inch maps. An oval enclosure (39m N-S; 32m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen scarp (ext. H 0.5-0.8m). The interior of the monument has been covered in imported topsoil. A farm track runs N-S across the E half of the monument.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 15 August 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.