Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dunkip, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunkip
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.50278, -8.64120
- SMR number
- LI031-058----
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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 reclaimed pasture, enclosure (LI031-234----) 50m to W, enclosure (LI031-132----) lies 130m to NW. Depicted as an antiquity on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map where it is shown as a tree-lined circular-shaped enclosure Shown on 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as an oval-shaped platform (diam. c. 26m) defined by a scarp with external fosse visible from E-S-W. Cropmark of levelled enclosure visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. Possible levelled ringfort.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of Upload: 28 March 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.