Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Farranmiller, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Farranmiller
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.56531, -9.33042
- SMR number
- LI017-008----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In undulating pasture, on N-facing slope. Circular area (27m N-S; 26m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.95m) NW->SW, and defined by scarped edge (H 2.35m; Wth 4m) with external fosse (Wth 1.3m) SW->NW. External bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.3m) extant SE->NE, but overlain by field boundary SE->NW so that site occupies SW corner of field. Numerous breaks in inner bank from NE->SE caused by cattle accessing interior. Causeway entrance (Wth 1m) at S. Interior, under pasture, slopes down gently to W.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.