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Ringfort - rath

Parkatotaun, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Parkatotaun, 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
Parkatotaun
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Lisgarryalugh Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Lisgarryalugh, Hachured (1923)
Coordinates
52.58219, -8.58217
SMR number
LI022-050----

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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 a slight SSW-facing slope, immediately E of townland boundary with Boherload, enclosure (LI022-049----) lies 165m to NW. No surface remains visible, slight undulations visible in location of monument. Annotated ‘Lissgarryalugh’ on the all editions of the OS maps. Depicted as a circular shaped enclosure to S of a townland boundary on the 1840 OS 6-inch map. Indicated on the 1897 OS 25-inch map as a rectangular shaped area (approx. int. dims 34m N-S x 27m E-W) defined by a bank from NE to SE, with external fosse from NE through SE to SW and W to NW and scarp from SW to W and NW, intersected by a field boundary at N. Faint trace of W and E fosse of monument visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 2010 and 2015 and on the OSi orthophotos taken 2005-2012.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 30 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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