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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.48883, -8.62471
- SMR number
- LI031-189----
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
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.