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Ringfort - unclassified

Rathmichael, County Dublin, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - unclassified, Rathmichael, County Dublin, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Rathmichael
County
Dublin
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.22657, -6.15911
SMR number
DU026-046----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

The ringfort site is situated on the NE summit of Carrickgollogan Mountain which is the site of a golf course. The site was identified on an aerial photograph (CUCAP, AOW 77) taken in 1961 when the W and SW sections of the site were still upstanding. The E side of the same site is indicated by a curving field boundary on the 1937 OS 6-inch map. It was still visible on an aerial photograph taken in 1971 (F. S. I.3.740). An aerial photograph taken in 1992 (OS 10 4725) shows the site as a cropmark which comprises a roughly circular area (int. diam. c. 40m) enclosed by a bank visible as a soilmark with an external fosse and an annexe at the NW.

Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy.

Revised upload on: 15 April 2018.

References

CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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