Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathnagore, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathnagore
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.52886, -9.06385
- SMR number
- LI028-015----
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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
In undulating pasture, on gentle SSE-facing slope. Circular area (30m N-S; 30m E-W) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks with intervening fosse. Inner bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 2.7m) has break (Wth 5.3m) at SSE where there is also a causeway (Wth 2.6m) across fosse. Outer bank (int. H 1.35m; ext. H 0.95m) evident SW->N though overlain by field boundary E->SW. Fosse (Wth 1.8m) infilled N->E and used as rubbish dump along NW arc. Interior, covered by nettles, slopes down to SSE. Farm trackway skirts enclosure E->SW.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.