Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tervoe, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tervoe
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.64673, -8.72360
- SMR number
- LI004-020----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 gently undulating pasture. Recorded as an enclosure by Westropp (1907, 379, 381). Depicted on the revised 1924 ed. OS 25-inch map as an oval-shaped enclosure (approx. 30m NE-SW; 25m NW-SE). Visible as a tree-lined monument to rear of two dwelling plots, on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and Google Earth orthoimage taken 19/11/2019.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages taken 19/11/2019 and 02/07/2018
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 19 June 2020
References
Westropp, T.J. 1907 Carrigogunnell Castle and the O'Briens of Pubblebrian, in the County of Limerick. Part I- the history of the place. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 37, 374–392.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 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.