Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cross More, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cross More
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Beanlassa Fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Beanlassa Fort
- Coordinates
- 52.68848, -9.27067
- SMR number
- CL058-019----
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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 the summit of a drumlin. A circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 32m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by an overgrown bank (Wth 7-9m; int. H 1.1-1.4m; ext. H 3m) separated by an overgrown fosse (Wth of base 1.6-3m; ext. D 0.6-1.8m), which is best preserved SW-N, from an overgrown outer bank (Wth 2-3.4m; ext. H 0.5-0.6m) which only survives ESE-NW. There is an entrance (Wth 3m) through the inner bank at S. A fulacht fia (CL058-074----) lies c. 155m to the SE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 11 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.