Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyknock, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyknock
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Knockreagh Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Knockreagh Fort (1921)
- Coordinates
- 52.86069, -9.08122
- SMR number
- CL033-005----
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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
On top of a low hill. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A circular grass-covered area (diam. 29.3m N-S; 27.3m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.6m at S) NE-SW and a scarp (H 0.6m at W to 1.4m at N) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse but there is a ramp entrance at SE which may be recent. It is overlain by an E-W stone wall, the N part being on a pitch and putt course.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 13 April 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.