Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ahawilk, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ahawilk
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.37250, -9.00399
- SMR number
- LI044-084----
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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 20m W of the Bunoke River that forms the townland boundary with Inishkeen. Ringfort (LI044-083----) lies 170m to NW. Depicted as a circular-shaped enclosure on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. c. 24m) enclosed by a bank with outer fosse from SE-W-NE. Planted trees depicted at E where they may have been an entrance gap. Intersected at NW by field boundary running NE-SW. Outline of monument delimited by trees is visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 6 August 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
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