Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Derrymore East, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrymore East
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1921)
- Coordinates
- 52.82380, -8.72133
- SMR number
- CL035-125----
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 a gentle SSE-facing slope, in improved rough pasture, overlooking the Cappalaheen River to SE. A roughly circular area (21m N-S; 19.5m E-W) defined by the remains of a bank (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.5m; Wth at top 1.5m; overall Wth 4.85m) which has almost been reduced to a scarp. The bank is best preserved WSW-NW. An external fosse (overall Wth 3.4m; D 0.2m) is visible intermittently and is best preserved SSW-NNE. The interior has a gentle S-facing slope and is obscured for the most part by large dead boughs and branches which have fallen from mature oak trees which align the bank. An uprooted oak tree lies in the centre and on the bank at S.
The following images have been uploaded:
CL035-125----_01.jpg From ENE. General view of monument – no rods.
CL035-125----_02.jpg From SW. Cross sectional view of bank and fosse at NW.
CL035-125----_03.jpg From N. Cross sectional view of scarp at E.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 11 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.