Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonlahard East, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonlahard East
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.53429, -9.20086
- SMR number
- LI018-082----
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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
On N-facing slope, in low-lying area of mixed pasture and marsh. Oval area (19m N-S; 22m E-W) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks with intervening fosse; fosse and outer bank overlain/replaced by field boundary SW->NE (this area obscured by dense overgrowth of trees and bushes). Inner bank (int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.3m) has break (Wth 0.6m) at NE but no corresponding break in outer bank. Fosse (D 0.6m; Wth 4.2m) flat-bottomed and boggy, especially on W side. Interior slopes down gently to N and is covered by tall grass, brambles and rushes.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.