Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Richmondvilla, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Richmondvilla
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.59044, -8.69959
- SMR number
- LI012-092----
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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 175m W of the gate lodge to Richmondvilla House and 100m SW of a local road that also marks the townland boundary with Greenmount. Depicted on the 1840 0S 6-inch map as an impressive multivallate earthwork intersected by field boundaries at S and E. The OS 25-inch map depicts a semi circular-shaped area (approx. int. dims 35m N-S x 55m E-W, ext. dims. 67m N-S x 50m E-W) defined by a bank from W through N to SE. A field boundary intersects the monument at SE while a lime-kiln is located 120m to NW. Outline of tree-covered monument with relict field boundaries radiating out visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 14/2/2020.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date upload: 23 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.