Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clonagh, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonagh
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.51001, -8.99560
- SMR number
- LI028-069----
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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, on gentle ESE-facing slope. Oval area (22.7m N-S; 27.7m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank with external fosse (D 0.65m; Wth 2.5m). Bank is best preserved along S arc (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 1.5m) but has been badly eroded by cattle along N arc. Interior, covered by nettles under a canopy of mature trees, slopes gently down to E. Field boundary, on N-S axis, skirts enclosure at E.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.