Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Flean More, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Flean More
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.56476, -9.21247
- SMR number
- LI018-018----
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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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In undulating marshland. Roughly circular area (20m N-S; 24m E-W) enclosed by much-eroded scarped edge (H 0.8m; Wth 2m), with external fosse (Wth 1.7m; D 0.3m) W->E. Enclosing element is overgrown by gorse and bushes, especially on S side. Interior is partially covered by overgrowth, otherwise under rough pasture which is heavily poached by cattle.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.