Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballingaddy West, County Clare, Ireland
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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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 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.