Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Martinstown, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Martinstown
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.39784, -8.48248
- SMR number
- LI048-012----
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 pasture, 73m W of Martinstown Stream. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular area enclosed by a bank. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch as a raised D-shaped platform (diam. c. 26m) defined by a scarp from SE-S-W-N-NE and intersected at E by a post 1700 field boundary running N-S. Monument visible as a raised circular platform defined a scarp with fosse from S-W-N-NE, intersected by modern road at E and SE, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Monument visible as a circular-shaped platform with fosse on Google Earth orthoimages. Aerial photograph taken 13/09/2002 shows the remains of a curvilinear ditch 50m to NW of platform which may be an outer enclosing element associated with the platform. This curvilinear ditch may represent the remains of some form of bailey or outer enclosing element to NW of platform.
See attached aerial photographs (ASIAP) taken 13/09/2002 and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 6 August 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.