Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lickeen East, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lickeen East
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.96621, -9.23940
- SMR number
- CL016-067----
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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 the S-facing slopes of the N shore of Lickeen Lough in an area of uncleared rough grazing with good views to the S but overlooked by higher ground elsewhere. Hachured on the 1916 OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). An oval area (44m N-S; 39.5m E-W) defined from N to S by a low scarp (max. H 0.2m) and from S to N by an inner bank, a berm and an outer bank. The inner bank is best preserved at its N and S extents (Wth c. 2m; H 0.2m) and is reduced to a scarp elsewhere. The berm (Wth 3.5m) is widest at NNW. The outer bank (Wth 2.5m; H 0.4m) is best preserved at SW and N and has been dug away at NW. At N there is a potential causeway, the E part of which has been truncated by a field boundary. The interior slopes gently to the S and two parallel field boundaries orientated N-S form a narrow field (Wth 3-7m), planted with trees.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload: 25 May 2022
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.