Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clogher East, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clogher East
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.42486, -8.62332
- SMR number
- LI039-069----
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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 reclaimed pasture 200m W of townland boundary with Ballynamuddagh. Enclosure (LI039-067----) lies 160m to N. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped enclosure. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised roughly circular-shaped platform(diam. c. 25m) enclosed by a fosse. Intersected from SW-W-N by curving field boundaries which have now been removed. Surveyed by Henry A. Wheeler in 1970 and described as a ringfort situated on marshy flat pasture consisting of a low dry platform (H c. 2'-4'/ 0.6-1.2m) enclosed by a shallow wet fosse (Wth c. 10'/3m) (SMR File, Field Report 27/05/1970). Levelled monument is visible as a circular-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13. Outline of levelled monument visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 5 May 2021
See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 305/33 on 13/09/2002. 320/2 on 05/10/2002.
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.