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Ringfort - rath

Shanid Lower, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Shanid Lower, 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
Shanid Lower
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1923)
Coordinates
52.55910, -9.12018
SMR number
LI019-078----

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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

On SE-facing slope, on N edge of sheer fall into ravine. Oval area (26.5m N-S; c. 30m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank SW->SE and defined by scarped edge SE->SW. Bank (int. H 0.9m; ext. H 2.9m), best preserved along NE arc, lowers at SW (ext. H 1.2m). Scarp (H 2.35m; Wth 3.3m) drops to natural ledge (Wth 3.1m) above top of ravine S->WSW. Field boundary skirts around base of scarp (3.75m outside it) W->NNW. Interior, heavily masked by vegetation overgrowth, slopes down to S. Degraded earth-and-stone field boundary abuts enclosure at SSE; another field boundary which abutted at NE has been removed.
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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