Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Liffane, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Liffane
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.57387, -9.02171
- SMR number
- LI019-056----
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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 E-facing slope. Roughly circular area (35.8m N-S; 33m E-W) enclosed by an inner earthen bank, an outer earth-and-stone bank and an intervening fosse (W 2.5m). Inner bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.85m), best preserved SW->NW, has been much denuded by cattle at ENE. Outer bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.35m) and fosse (D 0.25m) are evident only where there is a fall into site from higher ground SW->N. Loose stones from eroded outer bank litter base of fosse. Boulder at external base of bank at E dumped here during field clearance. Interior, under rough pasture, slopes down gently to E.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.