Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyblood, County Clare, Ireland
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----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.