Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Maghera (rath Ed), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Maghera (rath Ed)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.93917, -9.13148
- SMR number
- CL016-114----
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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 in undulating and partly cleared pasture. Hachured on the 1840 and 1916 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps. Listed as ‘enclosure’ in the RMP (1996).
A subcircular rath (24m E-W; 22m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5.5m; int. H 0.3; ext. H 0.6m) that was heavily overgrown at SW and W; no clear inner or outer facing could be seen. A stone field wall clipped it at NE. The interior, which sloped to the SSW, was partly overgrown with gorse. Multiple hollows within the gorse suggested that it had been dug into in the past.
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
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.