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Ringfort - rath

Curraghlahan, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Curraghlahan, 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
Curraghlahan
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1927)
Coordinates
52.65780, -8.26097
SMR number
LI008-002----

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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 S-facing slope, in young coniferous forestry, with good views from NE-S-W. Depicted on the revised OS 25-inch map as an oval-shaped enclosure (31m N-S; 30m E-W) bisected by a field boundary running N-S, within the angle of a townland boundary. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 1999 and described as densely overgrown and largely inaccessible. A curvilinear arc of bank (overall Wth 4.3m; int. H 0.4; ext. H 0.4m) at SE was the only visible part of the monument which was described as being very disturbed. Visible as a tree planted monument on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 3 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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