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Ringfort - rath

Ballyellery, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballyellery, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballyellery
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
52.94943, -9.36352
SMR number
CL015-086----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

On a hillock in marshy pasture with good views across Liscannor Bay to the S. Hachured on both the first (1840) and Cassini (1916) editions of the OS 6-inch map. Classified as an enclosure in the RMP (1996). A circular rath (int. diams. 27.5m E-W; 26m N-S) is defined by an earthen bank and scarp with traces of an outer fosse. The steep, overgrown scarp (H 1-1.2m) is present around the entire monument and a low bank (int. H 0.2m; Wth 2m) survives at N and NE. The outer fosse (Wth 1m) is visible as a wet depression encircling the scarp and there is a possible original entrance gap (Wth 2m) with a corresponding causeway across the fosse at NE. The densely overgrown interior is level with no apparent features.

 

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Eve Campbell

 

Date of upload: 7-10-2025

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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