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Ringfort - rath

Lickeen East, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Lickeen East, 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
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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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

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

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

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