Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Laghcloon, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Laghcloon
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.94819, -9.38341
- SMR number
- CL015-082----
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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 rough pasture near the bottom of a S-facing slope c. 45m E of a stream. Hachured on the 1840 OS 6-inch map. A rath comprising a low subcircular platform (17m N-S; 14m E-W; H 0.25m) with three short stretches of earthen bank (Wth 1m; H 0.15m) along its perimeter. Wet ground around the platform may be indicative of a former fosse. The interior is level with no visible evidence for internal structures.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 15 August 2023
Nearby in the register
- Rock artunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.