Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Craggs, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Craggs
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.59675, -9.04954
- SMR number
- LI010-082----
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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)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Atop rise, in terrain sloping gently down to E. Roughly circular slightly raised area (20m N-S; 18m E-W) enclosed by collapsed and overgrown dry-stone wall (int. H 1.7m; ext. H 1.4m; Wth top 1.2m), with external fosse (D 0.6m; Wth base 1m) NW->NE. Wall barely detectible NE->SE due to collapse. Interior overgrown and littered with loose stones, slopes down gently to S.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
- Furnaceunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.