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Ringfort - rath

Rathbranagh, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Rathbranagh, 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
Rathbranagh
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1923)
Coordinates
52.54091, -8.70952
SMR number
LI021-100----

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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

On a slight N-facing slope, in pasture, with moderate to good views in all directions and abutting the townland boundary with Maghera from N-E-SE. Ringfort (LI021-099----) lies 18m to N. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped earthwork within a small subrectangular-shaped field. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2000 and described as a roughly semicircular-shaped area (44m N-S; 23m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.6m) visible from SE-S-W-NW and cut by a townland boundary running N-S across the E sector. There is a break in the scarp from NW-N. The interior contains grass-covered piles of field clearance rocks and is very undulating. Monument is visible as a trapezoidal-shaped tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018.

See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by ASI and Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 29 July 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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