Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynacarhagh, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynacarhagh
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.96073, -9.16977
- SMR number
- CL016-079----
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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 a S-facing slope near the top of a hill in a clearing within a coniferous tree plantation; surrounded by hilly undrained marshy pasture. Hachured on the 1916 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘enclosure’ in the RMP (1996).
A circular rath (diam. 26.5) defined by a low round-topped earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.4m) and external flat-bottomed waterlogged fosse (Wth 2m). Multiple cattle gaps run through the bank. A field boundary shown in the E half of the interior on the mapping has been levelled. Trees have been planted right up to the fosse between N and E. Another rath (CL016-080----) lies c. 40m to the SSE.
The following image has been uploaded: CL016-079----_01.jpg View from SW (CL016-079---- is visible to left and CL016-080---- to right)
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload: 9 May 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.