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Ringfort - rath

Lacka (Pubblebrien By.), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Lacka, 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
Lacka (Pubblebrien By.)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1927)
Coordinates
52.52850, -8.65109
SMR number
LI031-013----

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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

On a gentle NW-facing slope, in pasture to S and tillage to N, N section of monument forms the townland boundary with Cahirduff. An enclosure (LI031-014----) lies 75m to SE. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork (60m NW-SE; 47m NE-SW). Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2007 and described as a semicircular-shaped area (dims. 16m NNW-SSE; 30m WSW-ENE) enclosed by a bank (Wth 6.7m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 2.45m) which is incorporated into a field boundary from WSW-W-N-E. A fosse (Wth 5.85m; D 1.05m) is visible from WSW-W-N-E and has been re-cut as a field drain. Monument is visible as an oval-shaped area defined by a field boundary from WSW-W-N-E and by a cropmark from E-S-SW-WSW on OSi aerial orthoimage taken 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.

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

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 30 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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