Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gortnakistin, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnakistin
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.56780, -8.26565
- SMR number
- LI025-001----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a very slight N-facing slope, in pasture, with good views from NW-N-E, 145m S of the Dead River which also forms a townland boundary with Carrig Beg. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map as a large oval-shaped earthwork. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 1999 and described as a roughly circular-shaped area (42m N-S; 40m E-W) defined by a scarp (Wth 2.1m; H 0.65m) which has a cattle breach (Wth1.7m) at N and another breach (Wth 1.2m) at E. There is no obvious entrance. The interior is level, dry and clear of overgrowth. Monument is visible as a suboval-shaped earthwork on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 17 October 2020
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.