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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
52.56780, -8.26565
SMR number
LI025-001----

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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 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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