Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rineanna North, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rineanna North
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.69296, -8.94981
- SMR number
- CL061-019----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a lowlying area of natural undulations and rock outcrop. Noted as a possible enclosure on OSi MapGenie 2013-2018 ortho photographs. A D-shaped area (c. 30m NW-SE) with a straight SE side (L c. 36m), backing onto a low natural rise. Defined by a broad grassed-over bank of earth and stone (at SW: H 0.25-0.3m; Wth 3.8m, at N: H 0.2-0.28m; Wth 2.4m), obscured at W by an area of brambles. The interior is uneven and a farm track cuts through the site from S to N. An unclassified ringfort (CL061-001----) lies c. 285m to the NW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 5 November 2025
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.