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Ringfort - cashel

Cloonbrien, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Cloonbrien, 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
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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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)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (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

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

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

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