Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Effin, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Effin
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.36298, -8.61825
- SMR number
- LI047-068005-
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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 85m NW of the townland boundary with Gortacrank. 'Lady's Well (LI047-068004-) located immediately to S in fosse of ringfort with Effin church ruins (LI047-068002-) and graveyard (LI047-068003-) 144m to SSE. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a polygonal-shaped area enclosed by a field boundary with holy well attached to S side of enclosure. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised irregular-shaped area (dims. c. 21m; N-S, 36m E-W) delimited by a scarp with a post-1700 century field boundary from S-W-NW. Ó Danachair (1955, 210) described the site as following; ‘ A good spring (LI047-068004-) in the fosse of a ring fort’. Outline of monument is visible as a roughly rectangular-shaped area (23m NW-SE; 17m NE-SW) delimited by bushes, with a gap at SW, 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: 12 August 2021
References
Ó Danachair, C. 1955 The holy wells of Co. Limerick. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 193-217.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.