Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Teerleheen, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Teerleheen
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Teerleheen Fort (1917)
- Coordinates
- 52.93227, -9.22931
- SMR number
- CL024-001----
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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 gentle rise in hilly fertile pasture. Hachured as a ringfort on the 1840 and 1917 OS 6-inch maps and named ‘Teerleheen Fort’ on the 1917 edition. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A school was built on the site of the ringfort in 1941 and there is no trace of the site at ground level.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 19 November 2025
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.