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Ringfort - rath

Killeenoghty, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Killeenoghty, 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
Killeenoghty
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated (1923)
Coordinates
52.54620, -8.68223
SMR number
LI022-147----

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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 N-facing slope 95m S and 193m W of the townland boundary with Drumloughan South. Ecclesiastical enclosure (LI022-057003-) lies 430m to SW. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure. Shown as a small field and not as an antiquity on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map. Surveyed by the ASI in 2000 and described as a roughly circular-shaped area (20m E-W) defined by a bank mainly reduced to a scarp (Wth 6.1m; H 0.8m) from NW-N-E-ESE. The interior is level and clear of overgrowth. Field boundary intersects site from SW-W-NW. Known locally as a 'fort', the site was mostly levelled in the 1980’s with the interior levelled to compensate for slope. Levelled monument visible on the OSi orthophoto taken 2005-2012 and Digital Globe orthoimage 2011-2013. Faint trace of monument visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 2018 and 2020.

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 14 August 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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