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Ringfort - rath

Rinneen (Inchiquin By.), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Rinneen, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Rinneen (Inchiquin By.)
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1916)
Coordinates
52.94779, -9.02537
SMR number
CL017-127----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

About halfway along a gentle N-facing downslope in pasture, with a wide views out to N. Hachured on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1920) editions of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This fairly well-preserved oval rath (int. diams. 30.5m NW-SE; 23m NE-SW) is defined by a bank (Wth 2-3.6m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.7m) with an outer round-bottomed fosse (Wth of base 2.7m; Wth of top 6-7.5m; D 0.2-0.3m) which survives from N-E-SE. There are facing-stones on the inside of the bank from E-SE, and intermittently from S-WSW. The bank is eroded from S-W, while its outer edge from SE-WSW has field-clearance material and field stones added to the perimeter. A modern drystone wall overlies the original enclosing element in the NW sector. The interior is grass-covered, with a blackthorn tree at SE. A ringfort (CL017-129----) lies c. 125m to the NE.

 

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott 

 

Date of upload: 29-10-2025

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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