Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Craggs, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Craggs
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.58649, -9.04062
- SMR number
- LI019-238----
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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 pasture 90m W of public road. Depicted on the 1840 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure in an area of rock outcrop. The monument is depicted as a non-antiquity on the 1897 OS 25-inch map where the outline of a sub-circular shaped area (30m N-S; 28m E-W) is indicated with a solid line in the same fashion as the surrounding field boundaries. On this map a field boundary intersects the enclosure at S. Outline of scrub covered monument visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 08/04/2015.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 15 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.