Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clooncrippa, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clooncrippa
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.41236, -8.87697
- SMR number
- LI045-020----
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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 flat marshy terrain. Roughly circular area (31m N-S; 33m E-W) defined by scarped edge E->N (H 1m; Wth 4m), and enclosed by earthen bank N->NE (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 1.4m), with external fosse (D 0.6m; Wth 3m) E->S and NW->N. Fosse is truncated by public road W->NW. Enclosing element is truncated by field boundary NE->E. Interior level and under pasture.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 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.