Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Woodfarm, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Woodfarm
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.59357, -8.40014
- SMR number
- LI015-052----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a S-facing slope in gently undulating pasture. Consists of a roughly circular area (33.4m N-S; 26m E-W) defined by a scarped edge (Wth 2m; H 0.3m) with an external fosse (Wth 2.1m), and traces of a counter-scarp bank (int. H 0.2m; Wth 1.5m; ext. H 0.2m) from SE to SW.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 12 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.