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Ringfort - rath

Knockuregare, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Knockuregare, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Knockuregare
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1924)
Coordinates
52.45556, -8.57564
SMR number
LI039-037----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, 148m SW of townland boundary with Ballingayrour, cremation pits (LI030-177/178-) 305m to NE. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as circular shaped area enclosed by a bank. Shown on the 1897 ed. Osi 25-inch map as a raised circular-shaped area (dims. c. 27m N-S; 28m E-W) defined by a scarp and external fosse from NE-E-SE and from SW-W-NW. Monument visible as circular-shaped area enclosed by bank and fosse on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12. Traces of fosse visible from S-W on Google Earth orthoimage dated 28/06/2018. Linear cropmarks running E-W intersect the monument at NW and S, running into a linear cropmark running N-S, visible on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-2012 and Google Earth orthoimages.

See attached aerial photograph (ASIAP (346) 3) 05/01/2003 and Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 16 April 2021

References

ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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