Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rath, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rath
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.62002, -8.40654
- SMR number
- LI015-011----
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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 pasture on a gentle slope down to the W towards the Mulkear river. Anothe rringfort (LI015-010----) is visible across the river to WNW. There are good views to N and S. The monument consists of a roughly circular area (33.2m N-S; 32.3m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; Wth 1.1m; int. H 0.9m) with an external fosse (Wth 1.6m), with traces of an external bank (int. H 0.3m; Wth 2m; ext. H 0.1m) from NW to SE. There is a gap in the external bank at SE. The interior surface is uneven and slopes down to SE.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 2 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.