Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloghauninchy, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghauninchy
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisconry (1922)
- Coordinates
- 52.79001, -9.47268
- SMR number
- CL038-021----
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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 slight rise on a NW-facing slope. A circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 45m E-W; 42m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 9-10m; int. H 1.2-1.7m; ext. H 1.7-1.8m generally to 2.65m at N) and an outer flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of base 4.6-5m; ext. D 0.1-0.2m). There is no visible entrance, but the bank is damaged and the fosse obscured by this spoil at ENE (L c. 14m).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 15 April 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.