Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonty, County Limerick, Ireland
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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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 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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.