Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Leamaneh North, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leamaneh North
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.98351, -9.12398
- SMR number
- CL016-040----
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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 level shelf at the bottom of a SE facing slope with rising ground c. 100m to the N, overlooking a valley to the E. Hachured on the 1840 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. Listed as ‘enclosure’ in the RMP (1996).
A roughly circular area (int. dims. 17.1m E-W; 14.3m N-S) enclosed by an earthen bank (18.5m E-W; 16.1m N-S crest to crest) visible from SW to NE but reduced to an external scarp (H 1.2m) elsewhere. The bank varies in width and height (Wth 3.3-5.3m; int. H 0.4-0.85m; ext. H 0.6-1.2m) and is widest and highest in the N. The original entrance (Wth 1.2m) is at ESE. A gap at NNW may be related to the construction of a later grass-covered field wall which runs N-S through the ringfort and a second gap at NE may be an animal gap.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload: 4 May 2022
Nearby in the register
- Gatewayunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.