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Ringfort - rath

Maidstown, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Maidstown, 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
Maidstown
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1924)
Coordinates
52.43344, -8.60626
SMR number
LI039-076----

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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)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (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 110m E of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Clogher East and 140m N of townland boundary with Ballynamuddagh. Holy Well (LI039-077----) lies 380m to E small quarry or gravel pit 30m to NE. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised circular-shaped area (diam. 24m) defined by a scarp and fosse (Wth 5m) from SW-N-SE . The fosse opens out at SW (Wth 18m) where it may have been levelled. The enclosing fosse is intersected at NE by a field boundary that curves from NW-SE. Visible as a scrub-covered monument on aerial photograph (ASIAP (328) 15) taken 05/10/2002 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages and ASIAP aerial photograph.

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 28 April 2021

See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 346/22, 23 on 05/01/2003

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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