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
- Partially hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.43063, -8.61962
- SMR number
- LI039-072----
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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 110m E of a watercourse. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped earthwork. Partially levelled monument shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised roughly circular-shaped area (diam. c. 24m) defined by a scarp with external fosse both of which have been removed at E. Truncated at W by curving field boundary running N-S and intersected at S by field boundary running NE-SW. Partially levelled monument visible as semi-circular shaped earthwork delimited by trees from S-W-N on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. Visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020 where it is intersected at S by field boundary that has been partially removed.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages and ASIAP aerial photograph.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 5 May 2021
See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 305/33 on 13/09/2002.
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.