Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kells, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kells
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.96011, -9.00670
- SMR number
- CL017-093----
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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
In pasture on the gentle S-facing slope of an ENE-WSW ridge, c. 270m S of Lough Cullaun, and bordered by a later field boundary to the S. Hachured on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1916) editions OS 6-inch maps. Classified as an enclosure in the RMP (1996). A subcircular rath (diams. 25.8m E-W; 22.4m N-S) is defined by a low earthen bank (Wth 2.4-2.7m; int. H 0.3-0.4m; ext. H 0.1-0.4) which has been reduced to a scarp from N-NE-ENE. There is no obvious trace of a fosse. There are gaps in the bank at E (Wth 2.4m) and SE (Wth 2.4m) either of which may be an original entrance. The bank is overlain by spoil to the NE and has two whitethorn trees growing on it at E and S.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 21-10-2025
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.