Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Milltown South, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Milltown South
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.56920, -8.98406
- SMR number
- LI020-044----
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, atop ridge, in area of outcropping limestone. Oval area (25.5m N-S; 30.5m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank, with external fosse (Wth 0.8m; D 0.2m) ENE->E and ESE->S. Bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.6m), best preserved at E and SW, lowers ESE->SSE becoming scarp-like (H 0.1m; Wth 2.9m). Interior, under pasture with exposed limestone in places, slopes down to E.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.