Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gorteen (Dangan ED), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gorteen (Dangan ED)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1921)
- Coordinates
- 52.83793, -8.79309
- SMR number
- CL035-103----
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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
On a plateau, at the edge of a gentle SE-facing slope, in improved pasture. Depicted on the OS 25-inch map as a circular area (diam. c. 34m) defined by a broad single enclosing element which is defined on the exterior by a field boundary SW-N. According to Westropp (1914-16, 67), this monument was an ‘earthen fort’. It has been levelled and survives as the traceable remains of a roughly oval area (30m NW-SE; 34m NE-SW) defined by the very low traces of a levelled bank (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.75m; Wth at top 4m; overall Wth 13.2m). The monument appears to be truncated by a farm road (long-axis NW-SE) across the SW-sector. The interior is gently undulating with a distinct depression in the NE and SE sector. Ringforts (CL035-101---- and CL035-104) are located c. 168m and 190m to NNW and NNE, respectively.
The following images have been uploaded:
CL035-103----_01.jpg From NE. Cross sectional view of levelled bank at SE.
CL035-103----_02.jpg From NW. General view of monument.
CL035-103----_03.jpg From NE. General view of monument.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 10 April 2018
References
Westropp, T.J. 1914-16 Types of ring-forts remaining in Eastern Co. Clare, part IV. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 32, 58-77.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.