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Ringfort - rath

Gortnakistin, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Gortnakistin, 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
Gortnakistin
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1928)
Coordinates
52.56317, -8.26721
SMR number
LI024-061----

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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 rise, on gentle E-facing slope, in improved pasture. Surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as a raised roughly oval-shaped area (dims. 22m NNE-SSW; 14m ESE-WNW) defined by the remains of a levelled bank which has been reduced to a scarp. The bank (int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.4m; Wth 1.5m) is visible at NW and is reduced to a scarp (Wth 1.95m; H 0.8m) from NNW-N-E-S-SSW, and is completely levelled from SSW-W-NW. The interior has been raised across the W half to compensate for hillslope and has an uneven surface. Monument is visible as a tree-covered earthwork on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 25/05/2017.

See attached sketch plan and cross-sections surveyed and drawn by the ASI.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 17 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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