Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Mountblakeney, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountblakeney
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.38316, -8.63193
- SMR number
- LI047-041----
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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)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In reclaimed pasture 150m W of the townland boundary with Thomastown. Earthwork (LI047-042----) lies 250m to E. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped enclosure. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as an oval-shaped area (dims. 26m N-S; 21m E-W) enclosed by a bank from N-S-W reduced to a scarp elsewhere with external fosse from W-NW. Outline of scrub-covered monument visible on Google Earth orthoimages where it is intersected at E by field boundary running NW-SE.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 17 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.