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Ringfort - cashel

Rathmore South, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Rathmore South, 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
Rathmore South
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1927)
Coordinates
52.51507, -8.63009
SMR number
LI031-025002-

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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 low-lying pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, 45m NE of a townland boundary with Dunkip. Within the S half of a field system (LI031-025001-). Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a subcircular-shaped earthwork (61m NE-SW; 60m NW-SE). Described by O’Kelly (1944, 50) as: ‘A simple stone fort which did not have a fosse. It is now very badly collapsed and much of the stone has been removed. At one point on the S side some of the facing stones remain. The entrance is not recognisable. The overall diameter is 180’ (55m)’. Monument is visible on 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 subcircular-shaped earthwork, having a straight side to NW. Monument is visible as a subcircular-shaped earthwork on OSi aerial orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe aerial orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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