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
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.48957, -8.61338
- SMR number
- LI031-101----
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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 pasture, 400m NE of a ringfort (LI031-098----). Monument described by O'Kelly (1944, 51) as a type B earthwork consisting of the following; ‘A circular platform on the edge of which there is a bank. A fosse surrounds the whole. The entrance is on the E. side, where a causeway leads to a break in the bank. The overall diameter is 120’[36m]’. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a D-shaped area (dims. c. 17m NW-SE; 20m NE-SW) enclosed by a bank from E-S-W-NNW; bank from NE-E, incorporated into post-1700 field boundary running NW-SE. Curving field boundary at N represents remains of enclosing bank of levelled ringfort which is visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/09/2020.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 25 March 2021
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.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 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.