Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Islandgar, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Islandgar
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1921)
- Coordinates
- 52.85546, -9.09478
- SMR number
- CL033-003----
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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 shelf of a W-facing slope overlooking Islandgar Lough (dims. c. 380m E-W; c. 23m N-S) c. 100m to the SW. Listed as ' Enclosure' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A raised grass-covered circular area (diam. 30.7m N-S; 29m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.2-5m; int. H 0.2-0.4m; ext. H 0.8m at E to 1.2-1.4m elsewhere) NNW-S and by a scarp (H 1.4m at W) S-NNW. There are traces of a fosse (Wth of base 1.6m; D 0.2m) SSE-S.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 13 April 2016
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.