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Ringfort - rath

Greenane, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Greenane, 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
Greenane
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1923)
Coordinates
52.59413, -8.44528
SMR number
LI014-084----

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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 a gentle NE-facing slope in flat, poorly-drained pasture, with good views in all directions. The monument is obscured by dense scrub vegetation but is evident as a roughly circular area (diam. 19m NW-SE) defined by a scarped edge (Wth 4.5m; H 1.5m) with an external fosse (Wth 6.2m) and an external counter-scarp bank (int. H 0.5-0.8m; Wth 1.5-3.7m; ext. H 0.3m) of earth-and-stone. The interior is uneven and slopes down from the centre in all directions. A sub-oval depression in the centre (4m NE-SW; 3.5m N-S; D 0.8m) is partially obscured by scrub.

Compiled by: Denis Power

Date of upload: 25 June 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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