Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Croom, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Croom
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924).
- Coordinates
- 52.51147, -8.73692
- SMR number
- LI030-021----
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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 former flat pasture now developed for domestic housing built along Church Road (R516) on the outskirts of Croom, 390m E of the townland boundary with Carrigeen. Located 30m WSW of a ditch-barrow (LI030-022----) and 125m SSW from a ringfort (LI030-023----). The site is depicted as an embanked fort on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map and is also depicted as an enclosure (ext. dims. c. 37.5m N-S; 42.5m E-W) surrounded by a fosse on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. Two domestic houses have been built on the site of the monument that are visible on the OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12 and on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Inspected by OPW in 1957, the ringfort consisted of a level circular raised area (int. diam. c. 41m) defined by an external fosse (Wth 4.5m; D int. 1.5m; ext. c. 0.3m) (SMR File). The domestic houses built on the site are visible on the Google Earth orthoimages taken 05/02/2009 and 28/06/2018.
See attached OPW Plan, Section and Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan
Date of upload: 29 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.