Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonfeagh, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonfeagh
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1921)
- Coordinates
- 52.84110, -9.07504
- SMR number
- CL033-053----
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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 hill. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A circular grass-covered area (diam. 28.8m N-S; 27.9m E-W) defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth of base 4-5m generally to 7.6m at E; Wth of top 0.8-1m; int. H 0.7-0.8m; ext. H 1.3-1.5m) and slight traces of an outer fosse (Wth of base 2-2.5m; max. D 0.2m). There is an entrance (Wth 2.8m), which may have been modernised, at ESE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 31 May 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.