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Ringfort - rath

Ballyblood, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballyblood, 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
Ballyblood
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Cloonloughaun Fort
Latest-edition OS map
Cloonloughaun Fort (1921)
Coordinates
52.83479, -8.74421
SMR number
CL035-122----

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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

On an elevated area on a low ridge, in improved pasture, overlooking Creevosheedy Bog to E. Depicted and named ‘Cloonloughaun Fort’ on all OS historic mapping. A circular area (30m N-S; 29m E-W) defined by the remains of a bank (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1m; Wth at top 2m; overall Wth 6.5m) E-S-NE. The bank has been reduced to a scarp (Wth 3.75m; H 0.65m) NE-E, where there is a possible entrance. The enclosing elements are eroded and denuded externally by cattle. There is no obvious trace of a fosse. The interior is dish-shaped and featureless.

The following images have been uploaded:

CL035-122----_01.jpg From SE. Cross sectional view of bank at SW.
CL035-122----_02.jpg From S. Cross sectional view of scarp at E.
CL035-122----_03.jpg From E. General view of monument – 2m rods on either side.
CL035-122----_04.jpg From S. General view of monument – no rods.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 10 April 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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