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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
Partially hachured (1927)
Coordinates
52.53021, -8.66757
SMR number
LI031-008----

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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 level pasture, 70m N of a townland boundary with Monaster North. Enclosure (LI031-006----) lies 300m to WSW. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi map as a substantial circular-shaped enclosure. The SW bank of the monument was levelled between 1840 and the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map where the monument is depicted as a penannular-shaped earthwork transected by a post-1700 field boundary at SW.
Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2007 and described as a D-shaped area (32m NW-SE; 30m NE-SW) defined by a scarp (Wth 3.0m; H 1.15m) and an earth and stone field boundary (Wth 4.25m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.65m) aligned with mature hedgerow from ENE-E-S. A slight linear scarp forms the W-side of the monument, where a former field boundary has been removed. An external fosse (overall Wth 8.2m; basal Wth 3.2m; D 0.25m) is visible from NW-N-NNE and traces of fosse (Wth 3.55m; D 0.2m) are visible from SE-E-SSE. The interior is grass covered and is traversed by a stone wall field boundary running ENE-WSW across the NW quadrant and also by a trackway (Wth 2.2m) across the SE quadrant. Monument is visible as a roughly C-shaped area open to SW 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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