Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Cloghatacka, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghatacka
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Coordinates
- 52.61895, -8.75909
- SMR number
- LI012-044----
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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 grassland 400m E of the River Maigue and 230m E of castle site (LI012-043----). Depicted on the 1840 OS 6-inch map as a wedge-shaped platform. The site is depicted as a non antiquity on the 1897 25-inch map where it is shown as an irregular-shaped field (approx. dims. 25m N-S x 37m E-W) indicated with a solid line in the same fashion as the surrounding field boundaries. Fain traces of the cropmark of this levelled earthwork are visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 19/11/2019
See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 19/11/2019
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date upload: 18 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.