Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
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
- 52.52237, -8.64937
- SMR number
- LI031-136----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In wet pasture 200m E of a watercourse. Ringfort (LI031-015---) lies 60m to S. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Identified from examination of aerial photograph (BGE 1:5000 No. 43) of the region taken on 03/11/1984 associated with Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraghleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline. Faint traces visible as a circular cropmark on Google Earth orthoimage dated 16/03/2016. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/02/2020.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 25 March 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.