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Ringfort - rath

Knockardnacorlan, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Knockardnacorlan, 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
Knockardnacorlan
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1923)
Coordinates
52.57908, -9.08546
SMR number
LI019-017----

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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)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (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 pasture, atop limestone hill. Circular area (32.4m N-S) has been truncated on S side by E-W field boundary (now 25.9m N-S). It is enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.47m; ext. H 0.35m) SSW->ESE and defined by straight dry-stone field boundary ESE->SSW. Bank is best preserved N->NE but lowers at W. It has been partially quarried out at E leaving shallow weed-covered depression (Wth 7.1m) extending into interior for 10.4m. Interior surface, under rough pasture, is uneven due to exposed limestone outcrops and slopes down to S. A linear earth-and-stone bank (H 0.45m) abuts bank at NNE and extends into field on NNE-SSW axis for 62m where it turns down-slope to W for 35m before fading out.
Compiled by: Denis Power

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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