Ringfort - rath

The National Monuments Service's description

On a knoll in the highest part of the Leamaneh valley with ground sloping away in all directions particularly to the E and W where the valley is lower and rising in the N and S. Hachured on the 1840 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. Listed as ‘cashel’ with the number CL016-035001- in the RMP (1996). Described by Westropp (1913, 255) as ‘a levelled ring-wall near the avenue’.
A roughly circular earthen enclosure (31.9m E-W; 29.2m N-S; crest to crest; int. dims. 26.6m N-S; 26.1m E-W) defined by a bank (Wth 3-5m; H 0.3-0.5m). A later, collapsed and largely removed drystone wall is visible in the N and was built on the bank. A grass-covered field wall/bank (Wth 1.5m; H c. 0.4m) with visible stone traverses the site from N-S and is similar in form to a wall/bank which encloses the site at S and W. A cashel (CL016-036----) is located c. 87m to the NE.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack

Date of upload: 4 May 2022

References

Westropp, T.J. 1913 Prehistoric remains (forts and dolmens) in the Corofin district, Co. Clare (no. 11). Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries 43, 232-60.