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
- 52.56552, -9.05831
- SMR number
- LI019-031----
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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 gentle SE-facing slope. Circular area (28.4m NNE-SSW) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank with external fosse (D 0.15m; Wth 1.85m). Bank (int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.8m), best preserved along E arc, lowers at N. Remains of dry-stone facing evident on both inner and outer face of bank. Fosse, best preserved NNE->E, is completely masked by overgrowth SE->S and W->N. Interior, covered by dense overgrowth, slopes down to SE.
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
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.