Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Oldabbey, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oldabbey
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lissadinnwarve - Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.56511, -9.06929
- SMR number
- LI019-025----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, atop low hill. Circular area (diam. c. 40m) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks with an intervening fosse (Wth 3m). Inner bank (int. H 0.85m; ext. H 1.95m), heavily masked by overgrowth, is best preserved along N arc. Outer bank (ext. H 1.35m), best preserved along N arc, is externally stone-faced where incorporated into field boundary system W->NE. Gap in outer bank (Wth 10.5m) matched with causeway (Wth 10.5m) across fosse. Interior is completely covered by dense overgrowth. Passageway, depicted running tangentially to SE arc on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been since removed, and a more recent passage now skirts enclosure W->NNW. According to Westropp, despite its name- 'fort of the dead', there is 'no indication of any burials, nor any tradition about its grim name' (Westropp 1916-7, 34)
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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.