Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Faha Demesne, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Faha Demesne
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.60251, -8.73143
- SMR number
- LI012-080----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 on slight NNE facing slope with good views in most directions. On the 'Old Deer Park' standing adjacent to a laneway on the demesne lands of Faha House located 580m to NE. Present remains consist of a slightly raised circular-shaped area (diam. 28m) enclosed by an earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.7m; base Wth. 3.25m) from S through N to NNE and from NE to SE reduced to a scarp from NNE to NE and SSE to S with traces of an external fosse visible throughout. A quarry pit (diam. 8m, D 0.5m) has been dug into the external face of the bank at E. The level interior is densely overgrown. Outline of tree-covered monument visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 14/02/2019.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date upload: 21 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.