Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockbrack (corcomroe By.), County Clare, Ireland
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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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
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.