Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Coolanoran, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolanoran
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.48127, -9.00202
- SMR number
- LI028-151----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In undulating pasture, on gentle NNE-facing slope and below top of gentle rise. Roughly circular area (33m N-S; 36m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 0.3m; Wth 4m) WSW->ESE, and enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.35m), incorporated into field boundary, ESE->WSW. External fosse evident ESE->WSW but elsewhere obscured by dense overgrowth. Interior is flat and under pasture.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.