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Ringfort - rath

Cloonty, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Cloonty, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Cloonty
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1923)
Coordinates
52.56667, -9.14585
SMR number
LI018-068----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (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

In gently undulating pasture. Circular area (30.6m N-S; 30.6m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.5m) with external fosse (D 0.5m; Wth 1.5m). Causeway entrance (Wth 4m) at E; cattle breaks at ENE, NE and SW. Interior level and under grass. Linear extension of fosse to N (L 23.7m; D 0.35m; Wth 2.2m) with low earthen bank along each side (H 0.2m), terminates at E-W field boundary. Similar profiled extension of fosse to S (L 30m) but following gentle S curve. Extending N from close to SE corner of enclosure is low earthen bank (L 54m; H 0.25m; Wth 1m); at S end this meets similar low earthen bank (L 15m) travelling E-W, from which another similar bank travels S (L 28m) slightly to W of line of former bank.
Compiled by: Denis Power

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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