Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Rathcahaun, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathcahaun
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1920)
- Coordinates
- 52.91659, -9.01422
- SMR number
- CL025-045----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
At the S edge of a small plateau in reclaimed pasture with a stream c. 80m to the S. Hachured on the 1840 OS 6-inch map as a rath and on the 1920 Cassini edition and the 25-inch plan as an oval enclosure (c. 35m N-S; c. 25m E-W) bisected by a N-S field wall. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). On inspection in 1999 only a possible scarp (Wth 3m; H 1.2m) at S (E of the field wall) was visible with thinner vegetation for 30-40m to the N. Not visible on available aerial imagery (2024).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 1 December 2025
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.