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Ringfort - rath

Attyflin, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Attyflin, 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
Attyflin
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Lissard, Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Lissard, Hachured
Coordinates
52.59238, -8.71609
SMR number
LI012-088----

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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, on the demesne lands of Attyflin House located 1km to S. Annotated ‘Lissard’ on the 1840 OS 6-inch map where it is depicted as a circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank. Depicted as an enclosure on the 1897 OS 25-inch map where it is shown as a raised circular-shaped area (approx. int. diam. 15m, approx. ext. diam. 21m) surrounded by trees with a disused lime-kiln 10m to S. Outline of tree-covered monument visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 19/11/2019. This orthophoto shows remnant field boundaries to the E and NE as depicted on the 1840 OS map.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date upload: 22 June 2020

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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