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 (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.57065, -9.25628
- SMR number
- LI018-004----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In undulating pasture, on N flank of low rise. Circular area (diam. 30.7m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1.65m) with external fosse (Wth 2.3m; D 0.8m), with short arc of external bank at NW (int. H 0.75m; ext. H 0.6m). Enclosure bisected, on N-S axis, by farm trackway raised c. 0.3m above level of interior. Section of interior to W of trackway almost entirely obscured by overgrowth of trees, bushes and brambles. At NE is causeway entrance (Wth 1.6m). Field boundary abuts enclosing element at SE.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.