Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Finnor More, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Finnor More
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1922)
- Coordinates
- 52.79400, -9.43205
- SMR number
- CL038-031----
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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 the gentle S-facing slope of a ridge. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A circular grass and rush-covered area (int. diam. 29m N-S; 28m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5-6.5m; int. H 0.4-0.9m; ext. H 0.65-1.2m) with some internal facing-stones at E, and traces of a fosse (Wth 2.5-3m) visible as bands of rushes at N and S. The bank is damaged at SW, but the original entrance could not be identified.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 27 April 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 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.