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Ringfort - rath

Oldabbey, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Oldabbey, 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
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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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 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

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

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