Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ardgoul North, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardgoul North
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.56010, -8.97327
- SMR number
- LI020-050----
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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 low-lying pasture, on gentle S-facing slope. Roughly circular area (25m N-S; 23.2m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank. Bank (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.6m), best preserved along NW arc where incorporated into field boundary system, is lowest N->SE. Dip in bank (Wth 5.5m) at SE. Oval area (26m NE-SW; 14m NW-SE), enclosed by denuded earthen bank (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.5m), abuts enclosure SE->SW. This may be part of a natural limestone shelf which extends beyond field boundary to W. Interior, under pasture, slopes down gently to S.
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.