Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Mundellihy, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mundellihy
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.35130, -8.92618
- SMR number
- LI054-013----
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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
On low-lying level pasture. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure on 1924 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled except for arc of scarped edge (H 1.6m; Wth ) SSW->NNE, defining roughly circular area (diam. 26m). Scarp is best preserved SSW->W where there is a sharp dip down to stream. Scarp has been modified W->NNE where drain (D 1m), feeding into stream, has been cut along its base. Level interior under pasture. Silage bales are stored along E edge of interior, and there is a compost heap in NE quadrant. According to landowner rubble from demolition of old thatched house was dumped over interior in 1953; a modern dwelling now occupies site of thatched house which lies immediately W of enclosure.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.