Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Clogher East, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clogher East
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.43764, -8.62323
- SMR number
- LI039-070----
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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 E of townland boundary with Clogher West. Not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped platform (diam. c. 23m) enclosed by a partial fosse from W-N-NE and SE-S-SW. Monument is visible as a circular-shaped area enclosed by a fosse on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. Partial outline of poorly preserved monument visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 5 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.