Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyculleeny, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyculleeny
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Ballyculleeny Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ballyculleeny Fort (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.93829, -9.15606
- SMR number
- CL016-111----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 slight rise in hilly poorly drained pasture. Nearby fields have been drained and several show signs of former cultivation. Hachured and named ‘Ballyculleeny Fort’ on the 1840 and 1916 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps. Listed as ‘enclosure’ in the RMP (1996).
An oval rath (39m NW-SE; 33m EW; H c. 1m) defined by a steep scarp which is highest at SW and NE (H 1-1.4m). A field bank along its W perimeter gives the impression of an earthen bank. A lowering of the scarp at E may mark an entrance; a gap (Wth 1.4m) at S is recent. The interior is overgrown with rushes and is mostly level except where it slopes towards the N perimeter.
The following image has been uploaded: CL016-111----_01.jpg Aerial view from NNW.
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.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.