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
- Lickeen Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lickeen Fort (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.97229, -9.21919
- SMR number
- CL016-071----
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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 steep N-facing slope of a hill in undrained marginal land with coarse pasture and good views to the N but overlooked by higher ground elsewhere. Hachured and named ’Lickeen Fort’ on the 1840 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. Listed as ‘enclosure’ in the RMP (1996).
A circular area (diam. 31m) defined by an earthen bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 1.1m) or scarp and an external fosse. The bank is best preserved at E and S (Wth 6m at base) but has been reduced at W (Wth 2.5m; H 0.5m) and only a scarp (H 0.5m) remains at N. Multiple cattle gaps (Wth 0.5-0.7m) cross the bank. A lowering of the bank (L 8m) at E may be an original entrance. The fosse is flat-bottomed and is best preserved at E and S (Wth 3.9m at base; Wth 7m at top; D 0.6-1.2m) It has been reduced to a scarp at W and N (H 0.25m). The overgrown interior slopes steeply and a stone wall oriented N-S cross the E sector.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload: 25 May 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.