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Ringfort - unclassified

Carrigeen (Coshma By.), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - unclassified, Carrigeen, 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
Carrigeen (Coshma By.)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1924)
Coordinates
52.52471, -8.74634
SMR number
LI030-015----

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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)
  • 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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In flat pasture 450m S of the townland boundary with Ballynahown. The Early Christian monastery of Dysert Aenghusa with its round tower, church and graveyard (LI030-018001/4-) are located 400m to S. The site is not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map but is depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a circular-shaped platform defined by a scarped edge. The site is faintly visible on the OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12 and on the Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. The levelled earthwork (ext. dims. c. 34m N-S; 32m E-W) is visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018 where an external fosse (Wth. c. 4.5m) is visible as a cropmark. The site is not visible on the most recent Google earth orthoimage 14/02/2020. The site is likely to be a ringfort.

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Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan

Date of upload: 28 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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