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
- Lisduffnacrean, Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisduffnacrean - hachured (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.49731, -8.60309
- SMR number
- LI031-106----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 grassland, with possible medieval road (LI031-069----) 310m to W and ring-barrow (LI031-105----) 75m to NW. Earthwork annotated ‘Lisduffnacrean’ on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Outline of much degraded monument consisting of a circular-shaped area (diam. c. 39m) defined by a scarp with remains of a faint outer fosse visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13. Outline of poorly preserved monument visible on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-12. Depicted as a raised circular-shaped area defined by a scarp with wide external fosse intersected from S-W-N by a post-1700 field boundary on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. Post-1700 field boundary has been removed. Monument described by O’Kelly (1944, 51) as a Type C earthwork consisting of a ‘circular flat-topped mound surrounded by a deep wide fosse. The mound is in places 12’ [3.65m] high, and the fosse is 45’ [13.7m] wide for most of its circumference. The overall diameter is 240’ [73m]’. Faint outline of much degraded monument on Google Earth orthoimages taken 20/09/2020 and 28/06/2018. Wide external fosse enclosing visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 16/03/2016.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 15 March 2021
References
O'Kelly, M.J. 1944 A survey of the antiquities in the barony of Small County, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 4, 16-53.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.