Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Graigoor, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Graigoor
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.53333, -9.04232
- SMR number
- LI019-200001-
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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. Roughly circular area (diam. c. 23.4m) enclosed by earthen bank with external fosse (Wth 2.4m; D 0.35m). Bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.15m), best preserved along S arc, is truncated by dry-stone field boundary WSW->NNW. Fosse, best preserved NNW->E, is not evident outside field boundary WSW->NNW. Bank has remains of external stone facing NNW->NE. Entrance at ESE but masked by dense growth of briars. Interior, heavily masked by overgrowth, slopes down gently to SSW. Another ringfort lies 10.5m to N (LI019-20002-).
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.