Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Mondellihy, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mondellihy
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.57499, -8.77890
- SMR number
- LI021-011002-
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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 pasture on slight E-facing slope, moderate views in all directions, 8m N of the townland boundary with Gortaganniff, ringfort (LI021-011001----) to the immediate S. 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. 19m N-S; 20m 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 NE through E to 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.