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Ringfort - rath

Knockbrack (Corcomroe By.), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Knockbrack, 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
Knockbrack (Corcomroe By.)
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
52.95136, -9.30377
SMR number
CL015-099----

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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 rise in rough marshy pasture, c. 25m W of a small SW-flowing stream, with good views to N, E, and S but overlooked by higher ground to the W. 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 rath comprising a subcircular platform (27.5m NW-SE; 26.5m E-W) defined by a low earthen bank and scarp with traces of an external fosse. The enclosing bank survives at NE (Wth 1m; ext. H 0.8m; int. H 0.2m) and S (Wth 1m; H 0.1m), while a scarp (H 1.1-1.8m) defines the enclosure along the E and W, lowering to the NW (H 0.5m) and petering out between the NW and NNE.  A depression along the base of the scarp at the SW suggests the presence of an outer fosse. 

 

Compiled by; Gearóid Conroy and Eve Campbell

 

Date of upload: 8-10-2025

Nearby in the register

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

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