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Ringfort - rath

Liskilly, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Liskilly, 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
Liskilly
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1923)
Coordinates
52.56223, -8.73752
SMR number
LI021-049----

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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 the summit of a low hill with excellent views in all directions, enclosure (LI021-052----) lies 440m TO E on the townland boundary with Garranroe. The ringfort is depicted as a circular enclosure on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map abutting a farm lane and as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. 51m N-S; 43m E-W) on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map surrounded on the N and W side by an external fosse, a small gravel pit is depicted 5m to the W. Inspected by the ASI in 2000, the ringfort consisted of a level circular raised area (int. diam. c. 30m) defined by a low bank (Wth 4.1m; int. H 0.7; ext. H 1.6m) and external fosse (Wth 6.7m; D 1m). The site was overgrown with field stones cleared into the ditch. Monument visible as a cropmark on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018 and 14/02/2020 suggesting that the monument was further incorporated into the field since 2000.

See attached ASI plan and Google Earth orthoimages

Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan

Date of upload: 11 August 2020

Nearby in the register

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

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