Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Castletown (connello Upper By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castletown (connello Upper By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Gobnets Fort - Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.40806, -8.78646
- SMR number
- LI046-012----
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 level pasture. Roughly circular area (34.8m N-S; 34.2m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 2m; Wth 3m); scarp is lined with trees and overgrown by bushes NW->N. Scarp has been worn down at numerous places by cattle accessing interior. Level interior under pasture.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.