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Ringfort - unclassified

Garruragh, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - unclassified, Garruragh, 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
Garruragh
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Ballygastell Fort
Latest-edition OS map
Ballygastell Fort (1921)
Coordinates
52.86643, -8.72673
SMR number
CL035-026----

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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

Situated to the E side of the crown of a hillock, in improved pasture with extensive views across lower, gently undulating countryside ENE-NW. Named on OS historic mapping as ‘Ballygastell Fort’. A roughly circular area (29m N-S; 27m E-W) defined by the remains of a levelled bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.2m; Wth at top 2.4m; overall Wth 7.4m) NNW-ENE and W-WNW. The enclosing elements have been reduced to a low scarp (Wth 3.4m; H 0.6m) WNW-NNW and a higher scarp (Wth 3.3m; H 1.2m) SE-W. A small gap (Wth 1.5m) is situated at N and a wide gap (Wth c. 10m) is located ENE-SE, as per 25-inch OS map. There are faint traces of an outer fosse (Wth 5m; D 0.1m) W-WNW and NNW-ENE. The fosse appears to continue SSE-W, where it is respected by the field boundary, however it is densely overgrown around this arc. The interior has a distinct E-facing slope where it falls uniformly and uninterrupted to the exterior due to the wide gap ENE-SE. The enclosing elements and interior are grass covered except for the scarp SSE-W which is covered in furze and thorn trees. A field boundary (long-axis NE-SW) is c. 14m to SE.

The following images have been uploaded:

CL035-026----_01.jpg From NE. General view of monument.
CL035-026----_02.jpg From SW. Cross sectional view of low scarp at NW.
CL035-026----_03.jpg From N. Cross sectional view of bank and fosse at W.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 20 June 2018

Nearby in the register

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

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