Ringfort - rath

The National Monuments Service's description

Near the E end of an ESE-WNW running ridge, in hilly badly drained pasture with mature conifer plantations to the E and S. Hachured on the 1840 and 1916 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps as a subcircular enclosure (c. 28m E-W; c. 23m N-S). On the OS 25-inch plan (1897) an external fosse is shown from SW to WNW and a trackway, leading to a farmhouse c. 70m to the W, ran just outside from E to SSW. Listed in the RMP (1996) as Enclosure.
On field inspection in May 1999, no surface trace was visible. A bungalow had been built in the field immediately to the W. The nature of the ground suggested that it was probably a rath. Most of its outline is visible on aerial imagery dated 2005 (see OSi Ortho 2005). At that stage another trackway cut through its E limits and continued inside its N limits and continued westwards behind the bungalow. It is not visible on more recent imagery (OSi digitaglobe 2011-2013).

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Lynda McCormack

Date of upload: 29 June 2022

References

Record of Monuments and Places as established under Section 12 of the National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, County Clare. Issued by National Monuments and Historic Properties Service 1996. Department of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands.