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Ringfort - rath

Clonoghil Upper, County Offaly, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Clonoghil Upper, 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
Clonoghil Upper
County
Offaly
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.08511, -7.89023
SMR number
OF035-022----

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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

Located on the S facing slope of a high glacial knoll in undulating countryside. Poorly preserved ringfort which has its W half destroyed by quarrying of the glacial knoll. Originally the site appears to have consisted of a circular area (diam 27.5m N-S) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.7m) with no evidence of an outer fosse. This monument is depicted as a large circular enclosure on the first edition of the OS 6-inch map. On the current edition of the OS 6-inch map a gravel quarry is indicated in the field to the W of the enclosure. This enclosure is not indicated on the current edition of the OS 6-inch map. The monument was probably levelled between the two editions of the 6-inch maps.

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: 16 Augsut 2010

Nearby in the register

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

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