Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Eyrehill, County Clare, Ireland
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----
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 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.