Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyduff More, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyduff More
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ballyduff Fort (1919)
- Coordinates
- 52.87668, -9.11064
- SMR number
- CL032-005----
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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
Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). Hachured on the OS 1840 6-inch map and hachured and named ‘Ballyduff Fort’ on the 1919 OS 6-inch map. Situated on a S-facing slope near the summit of a prominent hill in an area of cleared and drained fertile pasture with excellent views. The area has been cleared and the enclosure almost levelled. A circular flat platform (diam. 25m N-S) remains defined by a shallow earthen scarp (H 0.6m) with a berm (Wth c. 7m) along its perimeter (diam. including berm 40m N-S). A large fort is remembered locally.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 12 July 2016
Nearby in the register
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.