Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Crean (smallcounty By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Crean (smallcounty By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.48030, -8.62543
- SMR number
- LI031-093----
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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
Rectangular-shaped fort described by O'Kelly (1942-3, 233) as following; 'This consists of a rectangular platform on the edge of which there may have been a bank. The latter has disappeared completely on the north side. In the S.W. quadrant there is an elongated hollow which may be a collapsed souterrain (LI031-093001-). The structure measures 120' [36.5m] north-south by 150' [45.7m], overall. It is situated in poor low land on the edge of a marsh bordering the Morning Star river. The entrance is not recognisable'.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 01 August 2019
See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 307/31 taken 13/09/2002
References
O'Kelly, M.J. 1942-3 A survey of the antiquities in the barony of Small County, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 3, 75-97, 169-84, 222-46.
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.