Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonoughter, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonoughter
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1841)
- Coordinates
- 52.56957, -9.25655
- SMR number
- LI018-003----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
At N end of low rise, in undulating pasture. Oval area (23m N-S; 28.3m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 1m) NE->SE and SW->NW, and defined by scarped edge (H 2.8m; Wth 9m) SE->SW and NW->SE. Interior level and under pasture; according to local information contains a souterrain but there is no evident trace of such a feature.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.