Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Toberagarriff, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Toberagarriff
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.64864, -8.43349
- SMR number
- LI006-054----
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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
In grassland in NE corner of a large field, 300m N of the R506 and 170m W of a local access road. The site is depicted as a D-shaped enclosure on the 1840 OS 6-inch map with a post-1700 field boundary intersecting perimeter at NW. The 1897 OS 25-inch map depicts the monument as a sub-circular shaped area (approx. int. dims. 38m N-S x 43m E-W; ext. dims. 48m N-S x 50m E-W) defined by a bank from NW through N to NNE, reduced to a scarp elsewhere. Monument visible as a tree-covered earthwork on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 10 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.