Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathcannon, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathcannon
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.45810, -8.62970
- SMR number
- LI039-020----
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, in the SW corner of a field, an enclosure (LI039-023----) lies 195m to the SE. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as an oval shaped platform defined by a scarp. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a sunken oval-shaped area (diam. c. 20m) enclosed by a bank, intersected at SSW by a post-1700 field boundary running NW-SE. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey recorded this monument as ‘one of ten ancient forts’ in the centre of the townland (OSNB Abbeyfeale to Bruree, 139). Partially levelled monument visible as a circular-shaped area (diam. c. 23m) enclosed by a bank from N-E-SW and W-N, with modern gaps at NW, N and E on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 14 April 2021
References
OSNB - Ordnance Survey Name Books. Pro-forma books arranged by Civil Parish for recording townland and other name-forms and compiled in the course of the OS 6-inch survey 1824-1841. The name books also include minor names and incidental references to antiquities. National Archives of Ireland.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.