Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Rathcannon, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathcannon
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.47068, -8.62934
- SMR number
- LI039-205----
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 flat wet reclaimed floodplain of the Morningstar River 80m to NW, immediately SSE of barrow (LI039-022----). Cropmark of ring-ditch (diam. c. 19m) bisected by a post-1700 drainage channel running E-W visible on Digital Globe aerial image taken 2011-13.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 14 April 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Pitunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.