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
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.60659, -8.72985
- SMR number
- LI012-081----
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 NE facing slope with the ruins of Faha House located 330m to SE. Not depicted on the 1840 0S 6-inch map. The 1897 2OS 5-inch map depicts the monument as a raised roughly circular-shaped area (approx. int. diam. 30m; approx. ext. diam. 40m) planted with trees. Present remains consist of a slightly raised circular-shaped area (diam. 30m) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.9m; base Wth. 6.10m) disturbed on all sides by animal activity and dumped material. The undulating interior is densely overgrown. Outline of tree-covered monument visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 19/11/2019.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date upload: 22 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.