Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Clooncrippa, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clooncrippa
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.41284, -8.87282
- SMR number
- LI045-021----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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 level marshy terrain, on the S side of a stream. A circular area (diam. 14m) enclosed by a fosse (D 0.3m; Wth 7.4m) with an external bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.6m) and an external fosse (D 0.35m; Wth 5m). There are opposite gaps in the bank at E (Wth 8m) and at W (Wth 6m). The entire site is covered by tall marshy vegetation except for the level interior which is dry and under grass.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 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.