Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyknock, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyknock
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Knockagure Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Knockagure Fort (1921)
- Coordinates
- 52.85960, -9.07877
- SMR number
- CL033-008----
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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
Situated on top of a hillock. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A raised circular grass-covered area (diam. 34.4m E-W; 32.7m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.7-0.8m generally to 1.2m at E), except SW-N where there is a drystone wall with some coniferous trees growing outside it. There is no visible fosse, but there are ramp entrances at NNE (Wth 6m) and SSW (Wth 3m), both of which are used as modern entrances.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 27 April 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.