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Ringfort - rath

Eyrehill, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Eyrehill, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Eyrehill
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Lisfeean
Latest-edition OS map
Lisfeean (1920)
Coordinates
52.88528, -8.77991
SMR number
CL027-028----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On a very gentle NW-facing slope, in a lowlying landscape, in rough ungrazed pasture. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the RMP (1996). Depicted and named ‘Lisfeean’ on all OS historic mapping. A roughly subcircular area (42m E-W; 39m N-S) defined by an earthen scarp (Wth 1m; H 1.05m) which is obscured for the most part by dense vegetation, an intervening fosse S-W (Wth at base 3.7m; overall Wth 5.5m; D 0.9m) and NE-S where it is very shallow (D 0.2m), and an outer bank S-W (int. H 0.9m; ext. H 0.3m; Wth at top 1.7m; overall Wth 5.5m). The interior is mostly overgrown with briars but there is a grassy clearing in the SW area. A tertiary road is located c. 25m to SE and the Annagapple River is situated c. 38m to NW.

The following images have been uploaded:
CL027-028----_01.jpg From SE. General view of monument from roadside.
CL027-028----_02.jpg From NW. Cross-section view of fosse at SW.
CL027-028----_03.jpg From SE. Cross-section view of bank at SW.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 10 December 2018

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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