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Ringfort - rath

Ballingaddy West, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballingaddy West, 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
Ballingaddy West
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
52.95275, -9.31652
SMR number
CL015-095----

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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

In pasture on the summit of a hill. Hachured on both the first (1840) and Cassini (1916) editions of the OS 6-inch map. Classified as an enclosure in the RMP (1996). This is a heavily overgrown subcircular bivallate rath (diam. c. 45m). Where accessible (at S, NW and N) the enclosing elements consist of a round-topped inner earthen bank (Wth 2.1m; ext. H 1.8-2.1m; int. H 0.4m), the remains of an outer bank (at S only – Wth 2m; H 0.1m) and an intervening fosse (Wth 3.1-3.8m; ext. D 0.1m). At NNW, a short length (c. 1m) of upright stones in the inner bank suggests a revetment. While no trace of an original entrance was visible in the dense overgrowth, the OS 25-inch plan (1897) records opposing gaps in the inner bank (est. Wth c. 4m) and outer bank (est. Wth c. 7.5m) at SE.

 

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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