Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ranaghan, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ranaghan
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.96483, -8.97099
- SMR number
- CL017-103----
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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 at the W end of a low NE-SW ridge. Classified as an enclosure in the RMP (1996). Hachured on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1916) editions of the OS 6-inch maps. A circular bivallate rath (int. diams. 24.3m E-W; 22.8m N-S; ext. diam. 43m) is defined by a broad inner earthen bank, a fosse and a second, outer bank. The inner bank (Wth 6-7m; int. H 0.9-1.3m; ext. H 1.6-2m) has internal stone facing traceable intermittently from E-S-NW. The fosse (Wth at top 5.6-6m; Wth at base 1-2m; ext. D 1m) is round-bottomed and is girdled by the outer bank (Wth c. 2m; H 0.5m) which is best preserved at NW and surmounted for nearly its full course, from N-E-S-W, by a later drystone wall. There is an entrance gap (Wth 2m) at ENE. ‘Kilranaghan’ enclosure (CL017-104002-), containing a burial ground (CL017-104----) lies c. 100m to the E.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 21-10-2025
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.