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Ringfort - rath

Skehanagh (Connello Lower By.), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Skehanagh, 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
Skehanagh (Connello Lower By.)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated (1840)
Coordinates
52.50584, -9.01787
SMR number
LI028-186----

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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 flat pasture abutting the townland boundary with Coolybrown. Located 290m SE of a ringfort (LI028-058----). The site is depicted as a circular enclosure on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Not shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. The site is visible on the OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12 and on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Monument inspected by the ASI in 2007 and described as consisting of a roughly circular area (dims. 20m NE-SW; 18m NW-SE) defined by remains of levelled bank reduced to scarp (Wth 4.5m; H 0.4m) and shallow fosse (basal Wth 1m; overall Wth 7.5m; D 0.15m) truncated by a stream and field boundary from N-NE. Interior level and incorporated into rest of field as pasture. Sinuous gullies around exterior of monument caused by overflow from stream. A series of relic field enclosures (ext. dims. c. 27m N-S; 34m E-W) abut the SSE side of the enclosure and are visible on the aerial orthoimages. The monument is visible on the Google Earth orthoimage taken 29/03/2012 and 08/04/2015.

See attached ASI sketch plan, photographs and Google Earth orthoimages

Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan

Date of upload: 24 September 2020

Nearby in the register

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

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