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
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.96951, -9.22030
- SMR number
- CL016-070----
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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
Near the summit of a hill, on a NNE-facing slope in an area of marginal and boggy pasture with traces of boreens, structures and lazy-beds all around and with good views in all directions. Hachured on the 1840 OS 6-inch map and partially hachured on the 1916 ed. Listed as ‘enclosure’ in the RMP (1996).
A subcircular rath (31.2m E-W; 30m N-S) defined by a faint scarp and a fosse (Wth 2-2.4m; D 0.4-0.6m). The scarp has been removed in the E and is lowered to field level in the NE where there may be an entrance (Wth 6m). The interior slopes to the N and is overgrown with reeds with visible lazy-beds in the W quadrant. Earthen field boundaries in the E and S give the false impression of an outer bank.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload: 25 May 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.