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
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.94520, -9.37120
- SMR number
- CL015-085----
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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 low-lying marshy pasture overlooked by higher ground to N, c. 38m N of a SW-flowing stream that forms the townland boundary with Ballyellery and with views across Liscannor Bay to the S. Hachured on both the first (1840) and Cassini (1916) editions of the OS 6-inch maps. Classified as an enclosure in the RMP (1996). A subcircular rath (19.6m E-W; 18m N-S) is defined by the remains of an inner earthen bank (Wth 1.9m; int. H 0.15-0.55m) from W-NW, which has been reduced to a low scarp (H 0.2m) elsewhere, and by a shallow outer fosse (Wth 2.2m; ext. D 0.15-0.2m) which is water-logged and filled with reeds and rushes. The interior is level and covered in reeds. An enclosure (CL015-150----) lies c.105m to the NNE.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 7-10-2025
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.