Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Coolcappagh, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolcappagh
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.52381, -9.02516
- SMR number
- LI028-049----
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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, on gentle E-facing slope, immediately below top of low hill. Circular area (32m N-S; 32m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank with external fosse. Bank (int. H 1.05m; ext. H 2.4m) evident all round and has traces of internal stone facing at W and ENE. Gaps in bank at N (Wth 4m) and SSE (Wth 4.4m); N gap now closed by gate and has causeway across fosse, possibly of recent construction; S gap marked by slump of bank material into fosse. Fosse (Wth 2.3m; D 0.4m) best preserved SW->S, barely discernible N->NE, and is poached by cattle ESE->S. Interior surface has been churned up by farm machinery, and loose stone derived from eroding bank litter its perimeter. Field boundaries abut fosse at W and bank at ESE and S.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
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