Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rathmore North, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathmore North
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Rathmore Castle (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Rathmore Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 52.52226, -8.63865
- SMR number
- LI031-123----
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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
Rathmore Castle immediately adjacent to enclosure. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Described in 1889 as 'near Rathmore, where a massive tower and rath still stand east of the Abbey' (Westropp 1889, 232). Monument described in 1920 as, 'A small fifteenth-century peel tower [LI031-019----], on a rising ground, about a mile eastward, appears to have justified its name by being beside a semi-circular platform, over 6 feet (1.8m) high on which the modern cottage stands in tufted trees. This is evidently a fort, but quite defaced by its later uses. There is a low, straight-sided earthwork south-east from the road near it’. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophotos taken between 2005-2012 or on Google Earth orthoimage dated 28/06/2018.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 16 March 2021
See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP - 308/30 taken 13/09/2002.
References
Westropp, T.J. 1889 History of the Abbey and Battles of Monasteranenagh, Croom, County Limerick, 1148-1603. The Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland 9, 232-238.
Westropp, T.J. 1920 The assembly-place of ´Oenach Cairbre and Síd Asail at Monasteranenagh, County Limerick. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 35C, 363-77.
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.