Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrowgar, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowgar
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.46573, -8.99984
- SMR number
- LI036-045----
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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. Roughly circular area (33.8m E-W; 29.3m NW-SE) defined N->ESE and SW->WNW by scarped edge (H 1.35m; Wth 4.5m) with external fosse (D 0.35m) and counterscarp bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 1m); otherwise enclosing element levelled c. 1980, according to local information. Counterscarp bank is flat-topped (Wth c. 3m) on E side. Level interior under pasture.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.