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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
52.54797, -8.70817
SMR number
LI021-103----

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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 S-facing slope, in pasture, with good views in all directions. Ringfort (LI021-102----) lies 45m to N. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map as a suboval-shaped earthwork abutting a trackway to W. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2000 and described as a slightly raised circular-shaped area (24m E-W; 21.7m N-S) defined by a poorly preserved earthen bank (top Wth 1.9m; overall Wth 6.3m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.7m) visible from N-E-S-SSW and reduced to a scarp from SSW-W-N, with shallow external fosse (base Wth 2.2m; overall Wth 5.2m; D 0.2m) visible from N-E-S and infilled from S-W-N, where a field boundary intersects the site. The bank has intermittent cattle breaks from SE-S-SW. A gap through the bank at NE seems modern. The interior is level, dry and clear of overgrowth. Monument is visible as a 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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