Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rathmore North, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathmore North
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.52481, -8.61641
- SMR number
- LI031-138----
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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 improved pasture 330m E of a watercourse and immediately S of townland boundary with Cloghnamanagh. Ringfort (LI031-036---) lies 265m to SW. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a sub-circular-shaped depression (dims. 35m NE-SW; 17m NW-SE) truncated at N by field boundary running E-W. Identified from examination of aerial photograph (BGE 1:5000 No. 43) of the region taken on 03/11/1984 associated with Bord Gáis Éireann Curraghleigh West-Limerick pipeline. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 25 March 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.