Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathfarra, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathfarra
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Rathfarra - Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.55465, -9.07506
- SMR number
- LI019-104----
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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, atop low hill. Sub-circular area (20.2m N-S; 24.4m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank, with external fosse (Wth 3.8m; D 0.25m) WSW->NW and N->ENE, and counterscarp bank (H 0.35m) W->NW. Bank (int. H 1.05m; ext. H 2.5m), best preserved SW->ENE, is heavily masked by overgrowth ESE->SW; outer face is partially quarried out ESE->SSW. Entrance (Wth 3.55m) at E. Level interior, under pasture, rises up gently at edges to meet enclosing bank.
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.