Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cragmore, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cragmore
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.59435, -8.95001
- SMR number
- LI011-095----
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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 pasture, on break in W-facing slope. Ovoid area (52m N-S) enclosed by dry-stone stone wall (ext. H 1.54m), heavily masked by vegetation cover. Gaps in wall at W (Wth 7m) and SSE (Wth 4.9m). Noticeable dip (D 0.25m) immediately inside gap at SSE. Interior littered with heaps of earth and stone, particularly in N half. Field boundaries abut at W and N with boundary to SE removed since 1923 OS 6-inch map.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.