Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Castlecluggin, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlecluggin
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.54453, -8.29347
- SMR number
- LI024-080----
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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
On a dry piece of ground in otherwise wet, level pasture, with reasonably good views in all directions. The Reask River lies 200m to W. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map as a subcircular-shaped earthwork. Surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as a circular-shaped area (dims. 15m N-S; 13m E-W) defined by the remains of a poorly preserved scarp (Wth 12m; H 1.1m). The interior is uneven and grass covered. A land drain running N-S flanks the E side of the monument. Monument is visible as a roughly oval-shaped cropmark on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018.
See attached plan and cross-sections surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 19 July 2020
References
O'Dwyer, M. 1958-61 A survey of the earthworks in Old Pallasgrean, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 8, 69-78, 111-15.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.