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Ringfort - rath

Croom, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Croom, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Croom
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1924).
Coordinates
52.51276, -8.73573
SMR number
LI030-023----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On flat pasture to the rear of a row of modern houses built along Church Road (R516) on the outskirts of Croom, 500m ENE of the townland boundary with Carrigeen. Located 100m N of a possible ditch-barrow (LI030-022----) and 125m NNE of a ringfort (LI030-021----). The site is depicted as an embanked fort on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map and is later depicted as an enclosure (ext. diam. c. 50m) surrounded by a fosse on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. The ringfort is visible and densely covered in scrub vegetation on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12 and on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Inspected by the OPW in 1957, the ringfort consisted of a level circular raised area (int. diam. c. 32m) defined by an external bank and fosse. The bank (Wth 4.5m; H int. 0.6m; ext. 1.5m) defines the interior of the site on the SE side of the ringfort. The fosse (Wth 4.5m; D int. 1.5m; ext. 0.85m) surrounds the site on all sides with the exception of an entrance causeway (Wth c. 9m) on the E (SMR File). The site is tree covered 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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