Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Mounteagle, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mounteagle
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.41624, -8.67012
- SMR number
- LI039-100----
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, on slight SE-facing slope. Circular area (21.9m N-S; 23.7m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 1.35m; Wth 1.2m) with external waterlogged fosse (D 0.65m; Wth 2.95m). Enclosing element is overgrown by bushes. Cattle have worn a gap (Wth 1.1m) across scarp at SSW. Interior level and under grass except along margins where partially covered by overgrowth.
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ompiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 306/1, 2 on 13/09/2002
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.