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Ringfort - rath

Ballybaun, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballybaun, 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
Ballybaun
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
52.98134, -9.16647
SMR number
CL016-027----

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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 top of a hill in rough pastureland; the land slopes immediately to the W. Depicted as a circular hachured enclosure on the 1840 and 1916 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps. Listed as ‘enclosure’ in the RMP (1996).
A roughly D-shaped rath (26.8m E-W; 26.7m N-S) with a straight S edge (L 14m) is surrounded by a fosse; traces of an outer bank are visible from SW to W.
The rath is defined by a flat-topped platform that slopes towards the E; its height above the fosse varies from N (H 1.3m) to E (H 0.9m) to W (H 1.9m). There is a berm (Wth 0.8-1m) between its base and the inner edge of the fosse at W. The flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 1.5-2m; D 0.2-0.9) survives all round except at ENE where there is a wide modern ramped gap (Wth 0.8m) through it. A silted-up leat or drain extends from it at NW. The outer bank (Wth 0.8m; ext. H 0.2m) is also flat topped.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Lynda McCormack

Date of upload: 25 April 2022

Nearby in the register

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

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