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Ringfort - rath

Greenhills, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Greenhills, 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
Greenhills
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1924)
Coordinates
52.59124, -8.63776
SMR number
LI013-084----

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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 on the summit of a low ridge, in gently undulating pasture, with good views in all directions. The monument is depicted on the 1924 OS six-inch map as a sub-circular area (diam c. 30m E-W) enclosed by two banks and an intervening fosse. The enclosure is now obscured by dense scrub vegetation and much of it is inaccessible. It appears to be a sub-circular area defined by a scarped edge (H greater than 2m; Wth 6.2m) which is embellished at the top by a slight bank (Wth 0.8m; int. H 0.4m), and with an external fosse (Wth 1m) and an external bank (Wth 0.8m; int. H 1.1m) which has been partially incorporated into the surrounding field boundary system.

Compiled by: Denis Power

Date of upload: 25 April 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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