Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
Cloghanarold, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghanarold
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.52169, -8.96689
- SMR number
- LI029-146----
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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 undulating pasture SE of a farm road, on the demesne lands of Cloghanarold House (LI029-126----) located 300m to N. The site is on a vantage point at the WSW end of a low naturally occurring ridge. Doondonnell Church (LI029-012----) lies 180m to NW and ringfort (LI029-013----) is 200m to SSW. The site is depicted as a circular enclosure or tree-ring on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map (ext. diam. c. 30m). It is not depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map or subsequent maps. It is not visible on the OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12 nor on the Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Inspected by the ASI in 2007 when no surface trace could be identified. The location of the levelled site is visible on the Google Earth orthoimage taken 08/04/2015 and 28/06/2018. Could be the remains of a post-1700 landscape feature of Cloghanarold House as it is not depicted as an antiquity on the 1840 ed. OS map.
See attached ASI plan, photos and Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan
Date of upload: 25 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.