Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Minister'S-Land, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Minister'S-Land
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.50179, -9.05688
- SMR number
- LI028-107----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 rise. Monument, depicted on 1923 OS 6-inch map as sub-circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m), has been levelled. Now evident as roughly circular area (28m N-S) defined by low remains of earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.45m) NNE->ENE, and by scarped edge (H 0.15m; Wth 2m) S->NW. External fosse (Wth 1m; D 0.1m) evident NNE->ENE and S->NW. Enclosing elements difficult to discern elsewhere. Interior flat and under pasture.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.