Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrahil, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrahil
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1920)
- Coordinates
- 52.93453, -8.90154
- SMR number
- CL026-017001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 slightly raised ground in an undulating landscape. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the RMP (1996). A circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 48m N-S; 47m E-W; 48m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 5.4m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.8m at E to Wth 11-14m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.6-1.1m generally) which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.9m) SSE-SW. There is a souterrain (CL026-017002-) inside the perimeter at SSW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 2 May 2017
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.