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Ringfort - rath

Rathmore North, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Rathmore North, 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 North
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1927)
Coordinates
52.52865, -8.62949
SMR number
LI031-029----

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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 pasture, 315m W of a townland boundary with Cloghnamanagh. Enclosure (LI031-031----) lies 200m to SE and ring-barrow (LI031-033----) lies 270m to E, respectively. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork (45m NE-SW; 37m NW-SE) which is truncated across the W edge by a public road. Referred to by O’Kelly (1944, 49) as Earthwork Type B and described as: ‘A circular platform on the edge of which there is a bank. It is surrounded by a fosse. The entrance is on the E side where the fosse is causewayed opposite a break in the bank. The overall diameter is 100’ (30m)’. Monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork on OSi aerial orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe aerial orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 16/03/2016.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 2 November 2020

References

O'Kelly, M.J. 1944 A survey of the antiquities in the barony of Small County, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 4, 16-53.

Nearby in the register

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

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