Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Glin Demesne, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glin Demesne
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.56183, -9.29142
- SMR number
- LI017-020----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In undulating pasture, at foot of E-facing slope. Immediate area of site very uneven as recently cleared of woodland. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, is now barely perceptible. It consists of roughly circular area (diam. c. 30m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 1.4m; Wth 7m) NE->S, and enclosed by earthen bank NW->NE (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 2.55m) which utilises slope of natural ridge to accentuate its external height. Interior surface very uneven due to clearance of woodland.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.