Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Spittle (coshlea By., Ballylanders Ed), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Spittle (coshlea By., Ballylanders Ed)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Rathcoonagh, Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Rathcoonagh - Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.38538, -8.33112
- SMR number
- LI049-126----
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, immediately W of townland boundary with Ballynatona. Annotated 'Rathcoonagh' on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map where it is depicted as a raised circular-shaped area defined by a scarp. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised sub-circular shaped platform (diam. c. 30m) defined by a scarp, with fosse from N-E-S and external bank from N-E. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey recorded this monument as one of ‘three ancient forts in the townland’ (OSNB Abbeyfeale to Bruree, 229, 233). Monument visible as a circular-shaped area defined by a tree lined fosse and bank on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 13 October 2021
Nearby in the register
- Pitunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Pitunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.