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Ringfort - rath

Mondellihy, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Mondellihy, 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
Mondellihy
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1923)
Coordinates
52.57477, -8.77886
SMR number
LI021-011001-

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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)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture on slight E-facing slope, moderate views in all directions, 8m N of the townland boundary with Gortaganniff, ringfort (LI021-011002----) to the immediate N. Westropp described the conjoined ringforts as following “Mondellihy Rings…They lie north and south and consist of two earthen rings, one stone-faced and capped with dry stone walls’ (Westropp 1921, 183). Present remains consist of a slightly raised circular-shaped area (dims. 24m N-S; 22m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank mainly reduced to a scarp (Wth 1.8m; H 0.4m) that has been levelled from N to E and a ramp (Wth. 4m) across scarp at S. Poorly preserved monument visible on Google Earth image taken 2018.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 9 July 20202

References

Westropp, T.J. 1921 Mondellihy Rings (note). Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 51, 183.

Nearby in the register

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

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