Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gortskagh, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortskagh
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.42516, -8.95843
- SMR number
- LI037-074----
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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 gentle E-facing slope. Oval area (60m E-W; 48m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.95m) with external fosse (Wth 1.3m; D 0.45m). Interior, under pasture, has been levelled up on E side to compensate for slope of terrain. Field boundaries, which formerly abutted enclosure at E and NW, have been removed.
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassified1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.