Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tullassa, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tullassa
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1921)
- Coordinates
- 52.85239, -9.08186
- SMR number
- CL033-051----
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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
Situated at the N edge of a slight plateau. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP 1996). A raised circular grass-covered area (diam. 25.7m N-S; 24m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.2-4.7m; int. H 0.1-0.2m; ext. H 1-1.3m) SE-NW which is incorporated into a field bank NE-SW and reduced to a scarp (max. H 2.5m) NW-NE. There is no visbile fosse or original entrance, but there are traces of facing stones on the bank. A souterrain (CL033-051002-) is in the perimeter at W, and another souterrain (CL033-051003-) is towards the centre of the site.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 31 May 2016
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.