Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonloum More, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonloum More
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1921)
- Coordinates
- 52.83172, -8.70548
- SMR number
- CL035-126----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a very gentle SSW-facing slope, in rough pasture, overlooking a gently undulating landscape in all directions. An oval area (32m N-S; 28m E-W) defined by the remains of a bank which has been reduced to a scarp (Wth 1.2m; H 0.2m). The scarp is very low and almost completely levelled N-NE and ESE-SE. The scarp is not readily visible S-W, due to dense briars, where it abuts a field boundary (long-axis WNW-ESE). Thorn trees grow intermittently around the top of the scarp N-ESE and at W. The faint remains of a very shallow fosse (overall Wth 5.1m; basal Wth 2.7m; D 0.05m) are traceable WNW-E. The interior slopes down very gently to SSW, where it is very poorly drained and poached by livestock. Ringforts (CL035-127001- and CL035-127002-) are c. 18m and 45m to NE, respectively.
The following images have been uploaded:
CL035-126----_01.jpg From SW. Cross sectional view of scarp and fosse at SE.
CL035-126----_02.jpg From SE. View across interior.
CL035-126----_03.jpg From N. General view of monument.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 11 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.