TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Ringfort - rath

Shanagolden Demesne, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Shanagolden Demesne, 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
Shanagolden Demesne
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Partially hachured (1923)
Coordinates
52.58495, -9.10340
SMR number
LI019-010----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

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)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture at N end of field, 75m S of the townland boundary with Croaghane. Depicted on the 1840 OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped enclosure. Only the S half of the monument is shown on the 1897 OS 25-inch map where it is depicted as a sub-circular shaped area (approx. int. dims 18m N-S x 22m E-W, approx. ext. dims 26m N-S x 35m E-W) defined by a bank from NE through S to NW and by a scarp from NW to NE. A field boundary is incorporated into the scarp at N. Outline of monument clearly visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 08/05/2017.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 9 July 20202

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Ringfort - rath in Limerick All County Limerick records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map