Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Rathmore South, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathmore South
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.51579, -8.62985
- SMR number
- LI031-025001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In low-lying pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses and bound by a townland boundary with Dunkip along the S boundary. Ringfort (LI031-025002-) is within the S half. Subrectangular-shaped area (14ha/35 acres) containing linear-shaped cropmarks, some intersecting at right angles to form a field pattern. Identified by 1:10,000 Bord Gais Eireann aerial photographs (No. 36) and on Archaeological Survey of Ireland aerial photographs (ASIAP 308, 32; 329, 6) taken 13/09/2002 and 05/10/2002) as a series of intersecting linear cropmarks in the vicinity of ringfort (LI031-025002-); one field still remains part of the modern field system. Monument is visible as a series of faint linear-shaped cropmarks on OSi aerial orthoimage taken 2005-2012 and on Digital Globe aerial orthoimage taken 2011-2013, although these are not evident on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage, Bord Gais Eireann aerial photo and ASIAP.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 2 November 2020
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.