Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rath, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rath
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1920)
- Coordinates
- 52.91609, -9.07824
- SMR number
- CL025-087----
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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
Situated on a ridge in a river valley with the land falling away steeply immediately to the E. A D-shaped enclosure (26m E-W; 20m N-S) defined by a drystone wall (Wth 0.4-0.6m; H 0.8m) with a straight W side. Overgrown with blackthorn. The fields adjacent have been cleared and spoil has been dumped at W and N. A ringfort (CL025-086----) is 21m to the W.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 11 July 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Stone sculptureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.