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
- 52.41681, -8.79911
- SMR number
- LI038-113----
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, occupying a natural dip on break in SW-facing hill slope. Roughly circular area (36m N-S; 38m E-W) defined by scarped edge NW->W and enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1.85m) W->NW. External fosse, depicted on 1923 OS 6-inch map W->NE, is now covered by dense overgrowth. Scarp (H 1.35m; Wth 1.15), best preserved S->W, dips at SE for c. 5m, and is denuded by cattle at WSW. Level interior under pasture. Deciduous trees grow along top edge of scarp with two mature examples at SSE and NE respectively. Farm passage runs tangentially to SW arc. Low field boundary abuts at NW.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.