Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Moig East, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moig East
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.64039, -8.89157
- SMR number
- LI011-020----
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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 pasture, atop hill with panoramic views, particularly to N over Shannon estuary. Circular area (diam. c. 55m) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks with intervening fosse (Wth 2.1m). Inner bank (int. H 0.75m; ext. H 2.35m) best preserved at WSW. Outer bank (int. H 1.05m; ext. H 1.1m) may be field boundary as it is similar in appearance (flat top and sheer sides) to field boundary which abuts it at NW. Entrance at SSW where low causeway joins gaps in inner (Wth 2.8m) and outer (Wth 2.3m) banks. Cattle break (Wth 2m) in inner bank at ESE. Fosse well preserved all around, though clogged with organic debris at SE. Flat interior is covered with brambles; low linear corrugations in SE quadrant are probably remains of cultivation ridges.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.