Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clorane, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clorane
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.50331, -8.64984
- SMR number
- LI031-055----
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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 reclaimed pasture, 217m W of townland boundary with Dunkip, 310m SE of enclosure (LI031-054----) and 230m NE of Clorane House. Post-1700 fish-pond 180m to S and laneway providing access to Clorane House runs around the S side of the earthwork. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped enclosure (diam. c. 20m), with large roughly circular shaped area defined by a curving field boundary on W side of monument. The small enclosure depicted as an antiquity is not shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map suggesting that the monument has been levelled between these two map dates. On this map the large roughly circular-shaped field boundary is outlined as a large oval-shaped area (dims. 91m N-S x 76m E-W) defined by a field boundary with external fosse from S-SW. Faint trace of levelled enclosure visible as oval-shaped cropmark with possible levelled ringfort in NE quadrant, on the OSi orthophoto taken 2005-2012 and Google Earth orthoimage taken 14/02/2020. Possible levelled ringfort which stands in NE quadrant of large enclosure or field which was associated with Clorane House.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 23 March 2021
See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 308/34 & 35 taken 13/09/2002 and 329/1 & 2 taken 05/10/2002.
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 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.