Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tromra East, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tromra East
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1922)
- Coordinates
- 52.80945, -9.44541
- SMR number
- CL038-013----
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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
At the W edge of an E-W ridge. Listed as 'enclosure' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A circular grass-covered but poached area (int. diam. 20m) defined by a scrub-covered earthen bank (Wth 4.4-6.3m; int. H 0.45-0.7m; ext. H 0.7-1.2m) the outer face of which has been cut away at S. There is no visible fosse and the entrance is not identifiable, but there are gaps at S (Wth 1.4m), SSE (0.8m) and NW (Wth 0.8m).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 14 April 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.