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Ringfort - rath

Clonlack, County Offaly, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Clonlack, County Offaly, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Clonlack
County
Offaly
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.33114, -7.16861
SMR number
OF011-021----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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

Single bank and ditch ringfort (max. diam. c. 33m) with slight traces of an outer bank and ditch S-W-NW. Ramp at SW may be original entrance.
In pasture with nearby enclosure (OF011-020----) to the S. Bivallate ringfort consisting of an oval shaped area (diam 24m; H 0.8m) enclosed by two earthen banks with intervening fosse (Wth 1m; D 1m). Causeway entrance (Wth 3m) at W. Inner bank (Wth 1.5m; H 1m), external bank (H 2m) destroyed at E by modern field boundary. D-shaped annexe attached to the N side where a gap runs from the platform through the banks into the D-shaped area (diam. 31m) which is defined by a low earthen bank (H 0.3m).

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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