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Ringfort - cashel

Milltown North, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Milltown North, 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
Milltown North
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated (1923)
Coordinates
52.57170, -8.97217
SMR number
LI020-004001-

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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, 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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