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Ringfort - cashel

Caheranardrish, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Caheranardrish, 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
Caheranardrish
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1924)
Coordinates
52.62649, -8.69319
SMR number
LI013-004----

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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

Situated in low-lying marshy pasture. A sub-circular area (diam. 40m N-S by 37.1m E-W) enclosed by a single bank of dry-stone construction. The bank is denuded from N to SW (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.35m; Wth. 1.8m) whilst the remainder (int. H 0.9m; ext. H1.4m; Wth. 3.4m) has been incorporated into the surrounding field boundary system, and is masked in places by fallen trees and scrub overgrowth. The stone bank is constructed of un-bonded, un-hewn limestone with a rubble core, and has rough coursing on the faces. There is evidence of collapse to S and NNW. A gap in the SSW might be the original entrance (Wth. 1.2m). There are two more gaps; one in the N (Wth. 2m) and one in the NNW (Wth. 2m) both in the section of denuded bank.

Compiled by: Denis Power

Date of upload: 5 February 2013

Nearby in the register

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

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