Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Flemingstown, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Flemingstown
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Gotoon Fort, Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Gotoon Fort, Partially hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.37337, -8.53132
- SMR number
- LI048-030----
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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 townland boundary with Ballygillane. An enclosure (LI048-029----) lies 310m to the SW. Annotated 'Gotoon Fort' on OSi historic maps. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank, intersected at N, E and SW by post-1700 field boundaries. Shown as a polygonal shaped field on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map, with curving scarp outside field boundaries at NW. Monument visible as a sub-circular shaped area (dims. c. 60m N-S; 62m E-W) enclosed by field boundaries on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP) taken 05/10/2002 and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 12 August 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.