Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rosstemple (coshma By., Athlacca Ed), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rosstemple (coshma By., Athlacca Ed)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.47135, -8.67739
- SMR number
- LI039-007----
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, 40m N of townland boundary with Inchinclare. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as circular-shaped area (dims. c. 39m N-S; 37m E-W) enclosed by two banks with an intervening fosse, intersected at S, SE and NE by post-1700 field boundaries. Monument visible on aerial photographs (ASIAP (306) 27) taken 13/09/2002. Tree-covered monument visible on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages and ASIAP aerial photographs.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 10 April 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.