Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ayle Upper, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ayle Upper
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1920)
- Coordinates
- 52.90512, -8.69633
- SMR number
- CL027-015----
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
In pasture, on top of a hillock (70m OD) with excellent views of the surrounding landscape. Depicted on all OS historic mapping as a subcircular enclosure. It consists of a subcircular area (29m NE-SW; 26m NW-SE) defined by a well-formed, narrow-topped earthen bank (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1.5m; Wth at top 0.4m; Wth at base 3.45m) which is covered in vegetation. There are narrow gaps (Wth 1.3m) at NW and NNE but no other entrance is apparent, possibly due to the vegetation. The interior is dished, with a high point at NNW. Vegetation around the perimeter is encroaching upon the centre of the interior. Field boundaries radiate from the exterior of the monument at NNE, SE and WSW, where there are gates in each case.
The following images have been uploaded:
_01 From SW. General view of monument.
_02 From W. Oblique cross-sectional view of bank at SSE.
_03 From SW. General view of interior.
_04 From NW. General view of monument.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 5 December 2018
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.