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Ringfort - unclassified

Cappanahanagh, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - unclassified, Cappanahanagh, 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
Cappanahanagh
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.67441, -8.41547
SMR number
LI006-032----

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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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On rolling pasture W of Boarmanshill. A wedge tomb (LI006-031----) known as ‘Tuamanirvore' or 'The Big Man's Grave' is located 200m to the NW. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure. It is not indicated on subsequent OS maps. The enclosure is likely to have been a ringfort (approx. diam. 25m). No surface trace of the monument is visible from Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 or on the Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage

Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan

Date of upload: 22 July 2020

Nearby in the register

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

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