Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ardanreagh, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardanreagh
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.50192, -8.54436
- SMR number
- LI032-118----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 poorly drained pasture, which is cut by land drains and watercourses, 200m E of a townland boundary with Rockbarton. A megalithic structure (LI032-117----) lies 110m to NW. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as an oval-shaped enclosure (dims. c. 41m E-W; 35m N-S) standing in N quadrant of narrow rectangular field immediately S of a field boundary running E-W. Partial outline of levelled monument visible on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimages 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: 8 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.