Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Craggaun, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Craggaun
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1922)
- Coordinates
- 52.79766, -9.46146
- SMR number
- CL038-025----
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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 the N-facing slope of a ridge. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A circular overgrown area (int. diam. 25m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3.8-4m; int. H 0.6-0.8m; ext. H 0.7-1.2m). There is no visible entrance or fosse, but it is circumscribed by a drain (Wth of top 2m; D 1.3m) S-WNW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 27 April 2020
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Stone sculptureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.