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Ringfort - cashel

Friarstown North, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Friarstown North, 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
Friarstown North
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1924)
Coordinates
52.58951, -8.60872
SMR number
LI013-098----

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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 immediately S of a field boundary on a steep N-facing slope in pasture. Monument is depicted on the 1924 OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular area (c. 30m E-W; c. 25m N-S) enclosed by a bank and fosse. It is now evident as a sub-oval area (30.6m E-W), defined by a bank (int. H 0.9m; Wth 1.95m; ext. H 0.3m) constructed of earth and stones. The bank has been reduced to a scarped edge from E to W. The N half of the interior is inaccessible, being masked by dense scrub vegetation as well as by recent dumping of rubble both in the interior and around the bank to N and W. There is a fosse evident at the W side this has been obscured by rubble dumping.

Compiled by: Denis Power

Date of upload: 27 May 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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