Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tobernea West, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tobernea West
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.36527, -8.60868
- SMR number
- LI047-069----
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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 pasture 150m E of the townland boundary with Effin. Depicted as a circular shaped earthwork on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised oval-shaped area (dims. c. 29m NE-SW; 24m NW-SE) defined by a scarp. Monument is visible as roughly circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank with traces of a possible external fosse on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Outline of monument partially delimited by bushes is visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 12 August 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.