Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rooskagh East, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rooskagh East
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.45752, -9.12473
- SMR number
- LI036-004----
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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 pasture, on a NW- facing sloped terrace on the N side of a low hill. Circular area (19.2m N-S; 20m E-W) defined by a scarped edge (H 0.8m; Wth 1m) with an external fosse (D 0.8m; Wth 1.7m) and a counterscarp bank (int. H 1.3m; ext. H 0.5m). An E-W running field drain truncates the enclosing element ESE->SW. Cattle have worn paths across the scarp at NW, NNW and ESE. The interior is level and covered by rough marshy pasture.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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.