Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cappananty, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cappananty
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.42739, -8.78986
- SMR number
- LI038-119----
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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 level pasture. Circular area (41m E-W) enclosed SW->E by earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.5m) with external fosse (D 0.7m; Wth 1.1m), and elsewhere defined by slight scarped edge. Gap in bank at NW (Wth 2.4m). Interior and enclosing element covered by dense overgrowth. A N-S field boundary abuts enclosure on W side.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 325/24 on 05/10/2002.
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.