Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Brittas, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brittas
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.60973, -8.41654
- SMR number
- LI014-055----
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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 poorly-drained, flat pasture with moderate views in all directions. The monument is heavily obscured by scrub vegetation. It is evident as a roughly circular area (diam. c. 21m N-S) defined by a scarped edge (Wth 4.2m; H 1.2m), with an external fosse (Wth 3.6m; D 0.6m) from WSW to SE. A possible outer bank (ext. H 0.4m; Wth 6.6m; int. H 0.6m) is evident at W, NW and SE. Two field drains impact on the site at NW and E, and it is moderately poached by cattle in the interior but more so in the fosse.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 21 June 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.