Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonee, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonee
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.40381, -8.80462
- SMR number
- LI046-007----
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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 pasture. Oval area (c. 15m N-S; c. 20m W-E) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.4m) with barely perceptible external fosse (D c. 0.1m; Wth 1.6m); enclosing element is obscured N->NE by earthen material recently dumped atop it. Enclosing element and interior largely obscured by dense overgrowth of trees and bushes; uprooted tree roots are strewn over interior. Outer edge of fosse is truncated SE->W by field boundary travelling concentric with it. Interior surface damaged by shallow quarrying in E quadrant; in NW quadrant is oval depression (5m x 3m; D c. 0.4m).
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.