TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Ringfort - rath

Newgarden North, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Newgarden North, County Limerick, 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
Newgarden North
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Logalean Fort, Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Logalean Fort, Partially hachured (1938)
Coordinates
52.70232, -8.52687
SMR number
LI006-004----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

David 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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

On flat pasture immediately E of the Clareville Water Treatment Plant on the S bank of the River Shannon located 120m to N. Annotated 'Logalean Fort' on 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map where it is depicted as a large sub-rectangular or roughly oval-shaped enclosure. On the 1897 OS 25-inch map the W half of the monument is enclosed by a bank which has been reduced to a scarp from NNW through N to E and has been levelled completely at SE. Remains consist today of a sub-rectangular shaped area (approx. int. dims. 53m NE-SW x 34m NW-SE) enclosed by a much degraded bank and external fosse which are clearly visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 06/02/2018.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages

Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan

Date of upload: 10 July 2020

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Ringfort - rath in Limerick All County Limerick records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map