Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Nantinan, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Nantinan
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.56471, -8.95979
- SMR number
- LI020-054----
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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 wooded area, on E-facing slope, in area of outcropping limestone. Circular area (diam. 29m) enclosed by two concentric earth-and-stone banks. Inner bank (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 1.6m), best preserved along S arc, lowers and becomes scarp-like NW->NNE (H 0.9m); dip in bank at ESE (Wth 3.2m). Much-denuded outer bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.55m), c. 1.5m distant from inner bank, is overlain by field wall WSW->NW. Interior, covered by mature deciduous trees, has lower N third separated from remainder by scarped edge (H 1m; Wth 6.1m); loose stones scattered long top of scarp are probably remains of a collapsed dry-stone wall.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.