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Ringfort - rath

Ardlahan, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ardlahan, 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
Ardlahan
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1923)
Coordinates
52.64085, -8.81002
SMR number
LI012-008----

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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 low limestone hill overlooking Shannon River to N. Roughly circular area (24.8m N-S; 23.4m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 0.8m; Wth c. 3m). Break (Wth 2.7m) in bank at SSW. Level interior and bank are covered by pasture. Abutting bank at SSW, NE and W are short runs of curving bank, very similar in composition to enclosing bank. Curving to respect N side of enclosure is farm trackway; on N side of this is a long curving length of a similar earthen bank. Some 25m to SE of enclosure is another series of interlocking curving earthen banks. These may be remnants of an ancient field system associated with enclosure.
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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