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Ringfort - rath

Ballynabinnia, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballynabinnia, 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
Ballynabinnia
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1921)
Coordinates
52.87148, -9.07838
SMR number
CL033-009----

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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

At the narrow crest of a N-S ridge with the ground sloping away to W and E. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A raised oval grass-covered area (dims. 27m N-S; 23.4m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.6m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.8m) SSE-S and a slight fosse (Wth of base 2.5m; D 0.1m) SSE-SW, which is continued by a berm (Wth 2.2m) and outer field bank SW-NW. Elsewhere the perimeter is defined by a scarp (H 1.2-1.4m generally to 1.8m at E), which merges into the steep slope at E. There are ramp entrances at S (Wth 2m) and NNW (Wth 5m), both of which probably receive modern usage. The W part of the interior is level, but the E part slopes down severely to the E (H 1.5m).

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 27 April 2016

Nearby in the register

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

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