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Ringfort - rath

Crean (Smallcounty By.), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Crean, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Crean (Smallcounty By.)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.48883, -8.62471
SMR number
LI031-189----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On flat pasture 696m ESE from the townland boundary with Ballintow. Crean church (LI031-091001-) and graveyard (LI031-091002-) are located 520m to ENE. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Two internal features are identifiable within the interior of the fort on the OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12 and on the Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. A circular structure, possibly a house or hut site (ext. diam. c. 7m) is located in the SW corner of the interior of the ringfort. A sub-rectangular structure, possibly a house site (ext. dims. c. 14m N-S; 9m E-W) is located in the centre of the ringfort. The interior (int. diam. c. 39m) of the monument is surrounded by a bank, fosse, outer bank and external fosse (ext. dims. c. 70m N-S; 72m E-W) with a possible entrances at S and NW. Identified by ASI aerial photographic survey 2002 (ASIAP (307) 27 and 28) as an enclosure. The site is visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 05/04/2006; 16/03/2016; 25/03/2017 and 28/06/2018.

See attached ASI survey image showing the ringfort and Google Earth orthoimages

Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan

Date of upload: 7 October 2020

References

ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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