Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Garrynderk North, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garrynderk North
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.37640, -8.65107
- SMR number
- LI047-063----
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 reclaimed pasture 75m E of a watercourse and 280m E of a roadway that marks the townland boundary with Ballynagoul. Moated site (LI047-064----) lies 90m to NE. 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 a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. c. 31m) enclosed by a bank, fosse, scarp, fosse and outer bank. A causewayed gap at E appears to be the original entrance feature while there is a second gap at S in the outer bank. Intersected at NE by field boundary running NW-SE. Outline of tree-covered monument visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 13 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.