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
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.69859, -8.49832
- SMR number
- LI006-010----
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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
On flat pasture with ringfort (LI006-009----) 75m to WSW. The site is described from cartographic and aerial photographic evidence only. Depicted as a circular shaped platform(approx. dims. 26m NE-SW x 31m NW-SE) enclosed by a fosse on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map. No antiquity is depicted at this location on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. The monument is now entirely overgrown with trees as is clearly visible 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
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.