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Ringfort - rath

Moig North, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Moig North, 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 North
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1923)
Coordinates
52.62361, -8.96874
SMR number
LI011-034----

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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)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, on S-facing slope, in area of outcropping limestone. Site is depicted as embanked circular enclosure on 1841 OS 6-inch map but with bank replaced by field boundary NW->SE on 1923 OS 6-inch map. Now evident as roughly circular area (27.1m N-S; 28.3m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.75m) SE->NNW and defined by scarped edge (H 0.75m; Wth 3m) NNW->SE. Dry-stone field wall runs along top of scarp NNW-> ENE and E->ESE; this is part of surrounding field boundary system. Scarp worn down by cattle ESE->SE. Ruin of a stone wall (H 0.35m) runs atop bank SSE->SSW. Interior, under rough pasture, slopes down to S.
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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