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Ringfort - rath

Cloonadrum, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Cloonadrum, 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
Cloonadrum
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1922)
Coordinates
52.78521, -9.44321
SMR number
CL038-028----

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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

On the gentle S-facing slope of an E-W ridge. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A subcircular grass-covered area (int. diam. 26m E-W; 24m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.4m at W to 5-6m elsewhere; max. int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.8m at E and W; 3m at N) separated by a fosse (Wth of base 1.7-3m; D 0.4-1m) from an outer bank (Wth 5.4-8m; ext. H 0.3-0.45m) which is overlain by a field bank NW-NNW. There is no identifiable entrance, but the outer bank is damaged and the fosse filled in at ENE (L 8.5m). There is a hollow (3m NE-SW; 1.7m NW-SE; max. D 0.4m) inside the perimeter at NW, and a second hollow (5m E-W; 2.5m N-S; max. D 0.3m) 5m WNW of the centre.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 27 April 2020

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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