Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Castletown (connello Upper By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castletown (connello Upper By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.42703, -8.81188
- SMR number
- LI038-108----
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 pasture, on steep S-facing hill slope. Roughly circular area (33m N-S; 37m E-W) defined by scarped edge NNE->WNW. Scarp (H 1.15m; Wth 3.2m) is best preserved where fall away in natural terrain gradient is greatest E->SW, but lowers at NE (H 0.2m: Wth 1.6m). Interior, under pasture, slopes down sharply to S.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.