Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.49446, -8.60324
- SMR number
- LI031-107----
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 pasture, on ESE facing slope, 200m N of enclosure (LI031-109----). Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Identified from examination of aerial photograph (BGE 1:5000 No. 2506) of the region taken 03/11/1984 associated with Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraghleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline. Faint cropmark of circular-shaped ring-ditch (diam. c. 6m) visible on Google Earth orthoimage date 16/03/2016. Site surveyed in 2007 and described as no surface remains visible.
See attached aerial photograph from Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline (BGE 1/5000 2506) and Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 29 March 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.