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
- 52.47760, -8.91296
- SMR number
- LI029-097----
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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)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, at N edge of break in N-facing hill slope. Circular area (40m N-S; 39.5m E-W) enclosed by two concentric earth-and-stone banks with intervening fosse (Wth 3.5m). Inner bank (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 2.6m), heavily masked by overgrowth along W side, best preserved SE->NW. Outer bank (ext. H 1.4m), eroded NW->N where internal height becomes very low, has external stone facing at NNE. Fosse, marshy along SE arc, is best preserved along W side. Entrance at E with breaks in inner (Wth 3m) and outer (Wth 3.4m) banks. Level interior under pasture.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.