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Ringfort - rath

Dunmoylan, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Dunmoylan, 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
Dunmoylan
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1923)
Coordinates
52.55012, -9.07363
SMR number
LI019-103----

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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, on gentle SE-facing slope towards stream. Circular area (32m N-S; 33.7m E-W) enclosed by two concentric banks with an intervening fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 0.8m). Inner earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.65m), best preserved NW->NE, lowers ESE->SE where there is a causeway across fosse (Wth 6.1m). Outer earth-and-stone bank (ext. H 0.3m), best preserved SW->ESE, is not evident SSE->SSW. Fosse becomes very shallow SSW->SSE, probably because infilled with levelled outer bank material at this point. Level interior under pasture. An earthen bank (H 0.6m) abuts outer bank at ESE; this travels for 14m in SSE direction before turning E and running for a further 31m where it is truncated by a dry-stone field wall.
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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