Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonadrum, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonadrum
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1922)
- Coordinates
- 52.79550, -9.43829
- SMR number
- CL038-029----
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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
On a slight rise on the gentle S-facing slope of an E-W ridge. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A circular overgrown area (int. diam. 34m NNE-SSW; 35m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at NNE: Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.4m; at S: Wth 6m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.8m), and an outer fosse (Wth of base 2m; ext. D 0.6m) NNW-SE. The original entrance could not be identified, and the site is circumvented by a field bank SE-NW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 27 April 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.