Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Friarstown North, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Friarstown North
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.58655, -8.60656
- SMR number
- LI022-039----
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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)
- 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
Enclosure described in 1942-3 as following; 'It is only just possible to trace this fort now. It has been levelled flat. Quite recently a Land Commission fence was built across the site. The monument seems to have had no fosse. Its overall diameter was 105' [32m]' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 228). Outline of circular-shaped field with farm buildings to N visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 2 March 2020
References
O'Kelly, M.J. 1942-3 A survey of the antiquities in the barony of Small County, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 3, 75-97, 169-84, 222-46.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.