Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Park (Clanwilliam By., Castleconnell ED), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Park (Clanwilliam By., Castleconnell ED)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.69828, -8.50002
- SMR number
- LI006-009----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On flat pasture, with ringfort (LI006-010----) 75m to ENE. The site is described from cartographic and aerial photographic sources. Depicted on the 1897 ed. 25-inch OS map as a small circular-shaped area (approx. int. diam. 20m) enclosed by a bank with traces of an external fosse at SE. The monument is now overgrown with trees and the fosse is visible at SE as shown on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-13.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan
Date of upload: 10 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.