Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cloonbrien, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonbrien
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.44303, -8.64130
- SMR number
- LI039-063----
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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 improved pasture 150m W of the townland boundary with Rathcannon. Ringfort (LI039-017----) lies 420m to N, ringfort (LI039-069----) 440m to SW. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a raised roughly circular-shaped area. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised polygonal-shaped area (diam. c. 28m) delimited by a field boundary marked with a solid line which may suggest the presence of a drystone wall, with external fosse from NE-S-W. A gap (Wth 8m) at WNW may be the original entrance feature. Visible as a tree/scrub-covered monument on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 28 April 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.