Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Mullagh, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mullagh
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.56374, -9.05925
- SMR number
- LI019-030----
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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, on W-facing slope below brow of low ridge. Roughly circular area (22.6m N-S; 25m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank, with external fosse (D 0.4m; Wth 1.25m) NW->NNE. Bank (int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.95m), best preserved NW->NNE, lowers S->NW becoming scarp-like at WNW (int. H 0.05m; ext. H 0.45m). Gap in bank (Wth 2m) at ESE. Interior is masked by overgrowth. Eastern third is divided from remainder of interior by earth-and-stone bank (H 0.3m; axis NNE-SSW).
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.