Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynacarhagh, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynacarhagh
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.96017, -9.16937
- SMR number
- CL016-080----
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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 1840 and 1916 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps. Listed as ‘enclosure’ in the RMP (1996).
An almost circular rath (24m E-W; 23.5m N-S) defined by a steep-sided round-topped earthen bank (base Wth 2.8m; int. H 0.35m; max. ext. H 0.8m at N) and external fosse (Wth 2.4m; D 0.3m). A slight lowering of the bank at E is the only hint of an entrance gap (L 3m). The interior slopes to the S and is in pasture. Another rath lies c. 40m to the NNW.
The following image has been uploaded: CL016-080----_01.jpg View from WSW (CL016-079---- is visible to left and CL016-080----) to right)
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
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.