Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyblood, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyblood
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Scoobagh Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Scoobagh Fort (1921)
- Coordinates
- 52.83710, -8.75760
- SMR number
- CL035-121----
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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 an elevated area of a low rise, in a small rectangular field of improved pasture. Depicted and named ‘Scoobagh Fort’ on all OS historic mapping. A roughly circular area (28m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by a broad bank (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 1.15m; Wth at top 1.75m; overall Wth 9.75m) W-NE. The bank is reduced to a broad scarp (Wth 4.3m; H 0.55m) ENE-W. A large clump of briars obscure the enclosing elements at NE and encroach into the interior. There is a possible entrance (Wth c. 6m) at ENE-E. The interior slopes down very gently to ENE and is featureless. There are potentially faint traces of an outer fosse W-NNW. A field boundary (long-axis E-W) is c. 4m to N, a second field boundary (long-axis N-S) is c. 5m to E, a third field boundary (long-axis N-S) is c. 9m to W and a fourth field boundary (long-axis E-W) squares off this field further to S. There is a small, flat-roofed corrugated shed c. 4.5m to NE of the monument, in the NE corner of this field
The following images have been uploaded:
CL035-121----_01.jpg From SW. Cross sectional view of bank at NW.
CL035-121----_02.jpg From SW. Cross sectional view of scarp at SE.
CL035-121----_03.jpg From E. Entrance at ENE-E.
CL035-121----_04.jpg From S. General view of monument, 2m rod on top of bank/scarp at either side.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 10 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.