Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonnagalleen, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonnagalleen
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.61629, -8.85289
- SMR number
- LI011-082----
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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)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In rough pasture, atop hill in area of outcropping limestone. Circular area (37.5m N-S; 35.5m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.7m), best preserved NE->SSE. Gap (Wth 4m) in bank at NE. Field wall kinks to respect enclosure NE->SSE. Interior is level and under pasture except for section (L c. 7m N-S) immediately inside enclosing bank SE->SW where there is noticeable dip, covered with trees, separated from rest of interior by ruinous curving wall (H 0.6m; Wth 0.8m).
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.