Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Shanvogh, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shanvogh
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1921)
- Coordinates
- 52.84568, -9.02302
- SMR number
- CL033-072----
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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 on a gently undulating karst landscape. An oval area (21.6m E-W; 15.4m N-S) defined by a stone-strewn earthen bank (Wth 4.7m at N to 7m at E; int. H 0.4-0.8m; ext. H 0.4-0.9m) which supports a dense growth of hazel. There is no visible fosse or entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 25 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.