Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Cloghaready South, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghaready South
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.49805, -8.33440
- SMR number
- LI033-056----
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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 wet pasture 50m S of the townland boundary with Knockeravella and 40m W of a field boundary that marks the boundary with County Tipperary. Moated Site (TS057-019004-) 175m to SW. Depicted on the OSi 25-inch map as a raised roughly circular-shaped area (dims. c. 17m N-S; 20m E-S) defined by a fosse. Described in 1960-1964 as a; ’Platform 87 feet (26.5m) in diameter with traces of a bank at its edge and encircled by a 9 feet (2.7m) wide ditch which has traces of an outer bank. Platform 6 feet (1.8m) high. This earthwork is excellently preserved. Marked on the O.S. map close to the county boundary’ (O’Dwyer 1960-1964, 96; Cloghaready South, 64). Outline of monument is clearly visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. Google Earth orthoimage dated 28/06/2018 shows extensive drainage ditches, running NE-SW, some have been excavated to the N and S of the monument and truncate the fosse at S.
See attached Google earth orthoimages and profile drawn by O'Dwyer
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 29 March 2021
References
O'Dwyer, M. 1964 A Survey of the earthworks of the district of Old Pallasgrean (concluded). North Munster Antiquarian Journal 9, 94-8.
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.