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Ringfort - rath

Cahirduff, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Cahirduff, 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
Cahirduff
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1927)
Coordinates
52.52722, -8.66988
SMR number
LI031-007----

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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)
  • 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 gently undulating pasture with good views in all directions, abuts a townland boundary with Monaster North to the immediate SE. Ringfort (LI031-223----) lies 220m to WNW. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a suboval-shaped earthwork. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2007 and described as a raised oval-shaped area (22m E-W; 19m N-S) defined by a scarp (Wth 1.9m; H 1.25m) with fosse (overall Wth 6.8m; basal Wth 1.2m; D 0.25m) and possible remains of an outer bank (Wth 5.2m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.2m) visible at SW with entrance (Wth 4m) at NW. The fosse is visible from SSW-W-N-NNE and has been infilled from NNE-E-S-SW, where later field boundaries enclose the monument. The interior has gentle SSE-facing slope. Monument is visible as a subcircular-shaped earthwork on OSi aerial orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage and sketch plans, cross-sections and photographs surveyed, drawn and taken by the ASI.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 27 October 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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