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Ringfort - unclassified

Knocknagorteeny, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - unclassified, Knocknagorteeny, 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
Knocknagorteeny
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1938)
Coordinates
52.65681, -8.43896
SMR number
LI006-053----

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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 60m S of public road and 40m W of the avenue leading to a house and farm buildings depicted in 1840 OS 6-inch map. On this map the monument is shown as a circular-shaped area or mound (approx. ext. diam. 30m) the perimeter and interior of which has been planted with trees suggesting that this may have been a post-1700 tree-ring. The 1897 edition of the OS 25-inch map indicates a raised circular-shaped area (approx. int. diam. 30m, ext. diam. 42m N-S.) defined by a scarp with an outer ditch from SE through W to NE. This map also depicts a tree filled interior suggesting a tree ring. Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018 shows the monument heavily overgrown with vegetation. Depicted as an antiquity on the 1840 OS 6-inch map, this may have been an earlier ringfort reused as a tree-ring in the post-1700 period.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 10 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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