Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Duckstown, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Duckstown
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.49011, -8.91373
- SMR number
- LI029-096----
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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 S-facing slope, immediately S of public road. Oval area (30m N-S; 25m E-W) enclosed by two roughly concentric earthen banks with intervening and external fosse. Inner bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.5m), best preserved SE->WSW, becomes scarp-like W->N. Outer bank (int. H 1.1m; ext. H 0.6m), wide and flat-topped (Wth 3m), is clipped by public road NNW->NNE. Waterlogged intervening fosse (Wth 2.2m; D 0.5m), infilled with earth and stones at SE, widens at W (Wth 4m). Outer fosse (Wth 1.4m; D 0.3m) is not evident NNW->NNE. Gap in outer bank (Wth 4m) at W. Space between banks widens (Wth 14.5m) along NE arc. Level interior under pasture. A mature oak tree stands atop inner bank at S.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.