Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathreagh More, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathreagh More
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.51314, -9.04452
- SMR number
- LI028-036----
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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 pasture, atop N-S ridge. Circular area (42.8m N-S; 42.5m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 0.35m; Wth 3.6m) with external fosse (D 0.05m; Wth 2m). At SSW scarp lowers (H 0.25m). Fosse, barely perceptible N->S, widens at NNW (Wth 7m). Level interior under pasture. A post-and-wire fence, on N-S axis, crosses interior close to E edge. A farm trackway runs immediately outside fosse at N.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.