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Ringfort - rath

Gortnaclohy, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Gortnaclohy, 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
Gortnaclohy
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1924)
Coordinates
52.36088, -9.06582
SMR number
LI044-103----

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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)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, on break in steep E-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 48m) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks with intervening fosse (Wth 1.4m). Inner bank (int. H 0.55m; ext. H 0.7m) survives for full circuit but external bank (int. H 1.05m; ext. H .035m) survives WSW->WNW and NE->E, but is truncated by field boundary S->WSW and WNW->NE. Causeway entrance (Wth 2.4m) at ESE. Interior, which has been raised on E side to compensate for fall of ground, is under pasture and level though surface very uneven. In NW quadrant is circular raised area (diam. 17m), defined by a scarped edge (H 0.65m; Wth 2.5m), which backs up against inner face of internal bank.
Compiled by: Denis Power

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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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