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Ringfort - rath

Coolcappagh, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Coolcappagh, 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
Coolcappagh
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1923)
Coordinates
52.52381, -9.02516
SMR number
LI028-049----

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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)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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).

Nearby in the register

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

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