Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Garraunboy, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garraunboy
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.54480, -8.83359
- SMR number
- LI021-170----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (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 gently undulating pasture, 80m N of a townland boundary with Boherbraddagh. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped earthwork (approx. 53m E-W; 42m N-S) bisected by a public road running N-S. Monument is visible as a very faint circular-shaped cropmark bisected by the public road on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 29/03/2012
See attached Google Earth orthoimage.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 6 August 2020
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.