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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
Lickeen Fort
Latest-edition OS map
Lickeen Fort (1916)
Coordinates
52.97229, -9.21919
SMR number
CL016-071----

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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

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

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

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