Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Coolagowan, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolagowan
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.41025, -8.81901
- SMR number
- LI046-004----
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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 undulating marshy pasture. Roughly circular area (36.4m N-S; 36m E-W) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks. Inner bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.1m) covered by trees and bushes. External bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.25m) only evident SW->WNW and NW->NE; it has been truncated by field boundary on E and S sides. Intervening flat-bottomed fosse (Wth c. 3.1m) covered in places by rushes. Causeway entrance (Wth c. 2m) at NW; at NE is gap only in inner bank (Wth 2.5m). Level interior under pasture.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.