Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tromracastle, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tromracastle
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- White Point Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.80123, -9.48147
- SMR number
- CL038-072
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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
In a fairly flat area in pasture c. 350m E of the seashore. Hachured on the 1840 OS 6-inch map and named ‘White Point Fort’. A cropmark of a large circular enclosure at the same location is visible on OSi MapGenie 2013-2018 orthophotography as an arc from S to NE (chord 90m). Reported by Ed O’Donovan in 2020.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 26 November 2025
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.