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Ringfort - unclassified

Maryfort Or Lismeehan, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - unclassified, Maryfort Or Lismeehan, 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
Maryfort Or Lismeehan
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1920)
Coordinates
52.88108, -8.70364
SMR number
CL027-034----

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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 wooded hillock, overlooking Maryfort Lough and Castle Lough to NE. Views inhibited by enclosing woodland. It is named ‘Mary Fort’ on the 1899 edition of the OS 25-inch map. It is depicted on the 1899 edition of the OS 25-inch map and the 1920 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a D-shaped area (38m NW-SE; 30m NE-SW) defined by a single enclosing element. Described by Westropp (1908-9, 391) as measuring, ‘108 feet north and south, and 130 feet over all, falling southward (6 feet in 108 feet along the slope), with a fosse and low inner ring, each 9 feet wide, the latter [up to] 5 feet high. The hill, despite its planting, has a beautiful outlook, the faint blue hills in King’s County being visible beyond Lough Derg; the old castle at Fortane [CL027-036----]…and three lakes showing from the slopes’. The site of the former Maryfort House is located c. 88m to S.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 11 December 2018

References

Westropp, T.J. 1908-9 Types of the ringforts and similar structures remaining in Eastern Clare (Quin, Tulla and Bodyke). Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 27C, 371-400.

Nearby in the register

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

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