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Ringfort - rath

Cooga Lower,Cooga Upper, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Cooga Lower, Cooga Upper, 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
Cooga Lower,Cooga Upper
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1927)
Coordinates
52.61167, -8.26588
SMR number
LI016-005----

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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

In undulating pasture, bisected by public road which forms townland boundary between Cooga Upper and Lower . Depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map as a substantial circular-shaped enclosure (diam. 61m), bisected by the public road running N-S across the W half of the monument. Only the W half of the monument is depicted on the OS 25-inch map as the W arc (C. 36m NNW-SSE) which is defined by the public road to E. Monument is visible as a segmental-shaped area to the immediate W of the public road, which is enclosed from SW-W-NNW by a newly constructed access road to an existing dwelling on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 18/11/2018.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 14 July 2020

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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