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
- 52.53371, -9.04195
- SMR number
- LI019-200002-
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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
Atop low hill, in area covered with trees and scrub but surrounded by pasture fields on all sides. Circular area (diam. c. 20m) enclosed by two concentric banks with intervening fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.35m). Inner earthen bank (int. H 1.3m; ext. H 2.1m), best preserved at NNW, has traces of stone facing along inner face. Gap in bank at ENE (Wth 2.5m). Outer bank (ext. H 0.65m), best preserved NW->NE, is stone-faced where incorporated into field boundary system NE->SSE and SW->NW. To NNW of outer bank, 6.6m distant, is a fosse (Wth 1.3m; D 0.6m) with slightly curved earthen bank (ext. H 1.2m) along its outer edge spanning distance between two field boundaries WNW->NNE. This fosse has traces of low stone kerbing along inner edge. Interior, covered with dense vegetation overgrowth, is only accessible at verge N->SSW. Another ringfort lies 10.5m to S (LI019-20001-).
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.