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Ringfort - rath

Cloonloum More, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Cloonloum More, 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
Cloonloum More
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1921)
Coordinates
52.83316, -8.70261
SMR number
CL035-128----

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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

In improved pasture, on the upper portion of a steady SE-facing slope, having good views across lower ground NE-S. Depicted on the 1840 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a semicircular enclosure (c. 35m NE-SW; c. 21m NW-SE) having been truncated by a field boundary (long-axis NE-SW) to SE. It is shown on the 25-inch OS map as a semicircular enclosure (c. 30m NE-SW; c. 18m NW-SE) defined by a scarp S-NE and a linear boundary (long-axis NE-SW) to SE. The scarp appears to incorporate a field boundary WSW-N on this map edition. The monument survives as a roughly oval area (22m NNE-SSW; 15m WNW-ESE) defined by the low remains of a bank (int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.3m; Wth at top 2.2m; overall Wth 7.45m) S-NNE which is obscured by briars for the most part, with a small clearing at SW. A low, linear field bank (long-axis NE-SW) (Wth 1.2m; H 0.45m) completes the enclosing elements to SE. The interior appears featureless and has a SE-facing slope. Mature deciduous trees, thorns and briars grow around the bank. A ringfort (CL035-127002-) is located c. 120m to SW.

The following images have been uploaded:

CL035-128----_01.jpg From S. General landscape view of monument (no rod).
CL035-128----_02.jpg From SE. Cross sectional view of bank interior at SW.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 11 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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