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Ringfort - rath

Dunganville Upper, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Dunganville Upper, 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
Dunganville Upper
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Lisheennabinna- Hachured (1923)
Coordinates
52.48666, -9.09975
SMR number
LI028-082----

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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, atop low ridge. Monument, depicted on 1923 OS 6-inch map as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m), has been partially destroyed. Remains consist of roughly circular area (diam. 60m ENE-WSW) defined by bank incorporated into field boundary system S->W, and elsewhere by remains of a bank which has been levelled and pushed outwards into rough heaps around perimeter. Passageway (Wth 3.4m) has been cut through S half of interior, on NNW-SSE axis. Interior area is covered by dump of uprooted trees.
Compiled by: Denis Power

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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