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Ringfort - rath

Knockroe (Coonagh By.), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Knockroe, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Knockroe (Coonagh By.)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Rathfooroge
Latest-edition OS map
Rathfooroge (1928)
Coordinates
52.52700, -8.37890
SMR number
LI033-021----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 reclaimed pasture close to the summit of a ridge (OD 680ft.) known locally as ‘Oileán na crú’. Possible pond-barrow (LI033-020----) 15m to S and ringfort (LI033-023----) 45m to E. Annotated ‘Rathfooroge’ on OSi maps. Depicted on the OSi 25-inch map as a sub-circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank. Poorly preserved monument surveyed by the ASI in 2007 and described as a circular-shaped area (dims. 18m N-S, 19m E-W) enclosed by a bank (Wth 5.1m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.15m) with slight traces of fosse (Wth 2.4m; D 0.2m) visible from SE-W and NW-NE. Described in 1960 as follows; ‘Interior 60 feet (18.3m) in diameter; a shallow ditch encircles it with a 12 foot (3.65m) wide outer bank’ (O’Dwyer 1960, 115; Knockroe 55). Levelled monument not visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. Outline of circular-shaped area enclosed by a fosse visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 18/11/2018.

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Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 3 April 2021

See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP - 133/03, 04 taken 23/08/2000 and 353/7 taken 05/01/2003.

References

ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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