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Ringfort - rath

Clogher East, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Clogher East, 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
Clogher East
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured, Crow Field
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured, Crow Field (1924)
Coordinates
52.42658, -8.62547
SMR number
LI039-066----

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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 45m W of large enclosure (LI039-067----). Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped enclosure in field annotated ‘Crow Field’. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a circular-shaped area (diam. c. 40m) enclosed by a bank from SE-W-N reduced to a scarp elsewhere with an outer fosse. Surveyed by Henry A. Wheeler in 1970 prior to land reclamation works and described as poorly preserved monument consisting of a slight raised circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank (ext. H c. 3' /0.9m; int. H. 0.1m) only visible from S-W with external wet fosse (Wth 6-8 ft [1.8-2.4m]; 2 ft [0.6m] deep) (SMR Field Report 27/05/1970). Westropp (1916-17, 21) refers to ‘two conjoined and two very close’ forts in Clogher-East. No surface remains visible of levelled monument on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020 shows N quadrant of levelled site now occupied by farmyard buildings and transected at E by farm track running NW-SE. Partial outline of levelled monument visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 05/04/2006.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 4 May 2021

See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 305/33 on 13/09/2002. 320/3 on 05/10/2002. 372/20 on 10/05/2003.

References

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

Westropp, T.J. 1916-17 On certain typical earthworks and ring walls in Co. Limerick. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 33C, 9-42, 444-92.

Nearby in the register

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

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