Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyline (bunratty Upper By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyline (bunratty Upper By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1920)
- Coordinates
- 52.92502, -8.93765
- SMR number
- CL026-006----
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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 the E-facing slope of a drumlin. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A circular overgrown area (diam. c. 30) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at W: Wth 4m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.6m), overlain by a field bank W-NE, which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.9m) E-SSE. There is no visible fosse, but an entrance (Wth 5m) at SE may be a widened original entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 2 May 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.