Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Milltown North, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Milltown North
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.57170, -8.97217
- SMR number
- LI020-004001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 limestone crag, on gentle SE-facing slope. Circular area (44m N-S; 43m E-W) defined by substantial dry-stone wall (ext. H 2.4m; int. H 2.4m; Wth 3.35m), best preserved along N arc where incorporated into field boundary system. Entrance (Wth 9.2m) SE->SSE, with boulders dumped against external face at either terminus. Uneven interior, under rough pasture, has scarp edge (H 1.01m) separating irregular lower area to NNW. No longer any evident trace of tower house (LI020-004002-) or souterrain (LI020-176----) in interior.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 4/1977).
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.