Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Raymondstown, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Raymondstown
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.44754, -8.60156
- SMR number
- LI039-031----
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, 310m E of townland boundary with Ballinculloo. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as an oval-shaped area enclosed by a bank. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as an oval-shaped area (dims. c. 33m NW-SE; 27m NE-SW) enclosed by a bank and external fosse, with possible entrance gap (Wth 9m) at N. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey described this monument as ‘an ancient fort in the central part of the townland’ (OSNB Abbeyfeale to Bruree, 644). Tree and scrub-covered monument visible on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimages. Relic field boundary running NW-SE is visible to the S of the monument on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 15 April 2021
See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 328/13 on 15/10/2002.
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.
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Hillfortunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.