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Ringfort - rath

Moig East, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Moig East, 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
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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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 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.

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