Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Morgans North, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Morgans North
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.61278, -9.04627
- SMR number
- LI010-025----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In flat low-lying pasture. Circular area (diam. 40m N-S) enclosed by collapsed sod-covered dry-stone wall (H 0.6m; Wth 4m), with external fosse (D 0.2m; Wth 3m) and counter-scarp bank (H 0.2m; Wth 2.2m) N->SE. A segment of enclosure, at SW corner, has been levelled and replaced by earthen field boundary enclosing garden. Gap in enclosing wall (Wth c. 3m) at NW. Level interior clear of overgrowth except NW quadrant which is overgrown with bushes'
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.