Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloghanarold, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghanarold
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.52897, -8.96789
- SMR number
- LI029-014----
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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, atop limestone ridge. Roughly circular area (45m N-S; 43m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank with external fosse (D 0.15m; Wth 2.4m) SE->WNW. Bank (int. H 0.15m; ext. H 1.45m) is much denuded by cattle, and is reduced to scarped edge (H 0.8m) WNW->SE. Fosse best preserved SE->SW, but barely perceptible SW->NNW. Counterscarp bank (H 0.55m) runs along outer edge of fosse SE->WNW. Interior, under rough pasture, is slightly higher in N third due to underlying limestone bedrock; remainder of interior slopes down gently to E.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Weir - fishunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.