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Ringfort - rath

Foyle, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Foyle, 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
Foyle
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured - Indicated (1938)
Coordinates
52.65205, -8.50587
SMR number
LI006-039----

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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

In grassland, in SW corner of field with post-1700 field boundaries intersecting the monument at SW, SE and S. This is the most northerly of three ringforts (LI006-040-/042----) forming a line running NW-SE for a distance of c. 200m. The two ringforts (LI006-040-/042----) lie 63m and 190m to SE respectively. Monument indicated as a sub-circular shaped area defined by a bank on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. Shown on the 1897 OS 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped area (approx. int. diam. 28m N-S, 24m E-W; ext. diam. 42m) enclosed by a bank from NE through S to W and by a scarp from NW to NE. Monument visible today on Digital Globe imagery taken 2011-13 with enclosing tree-covered bank with a gap at NNW. Traces of outer ditch visible from S through to NW on Google earth orthophoto taken 20/11/2010 may be associated with post-1700 drainage. Outline of monument visible on Google Earth orthophoto taken 19/11/2019.

See attached Google Earth orthophoto taken 19/11/2019 and 30/06/2018

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney and Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 8 June 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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