Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Woodfield, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Woodfield
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.34581, -8.92043
- SMR number
- LI054-016----
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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 gently undulating pasture. Roughly circular area (diam. c. 35m) enclosed by earthen bank, with external waterlogged fosse (D 0.3m; Wth 2.8m), which are both masked by dense overgrowth. Bank (int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.15m), best preserved along E side (ext. H 1.6m), is denuded by cattle along N arc where it widens out (Wth 2.1m). Gap in bank (Wth 3.4m) at SW. Fosse is not evident NNW->N where a small rectangular annex adjoins. A similar triangular annex adjoins SSE->S. Interior is masked by dense overgrowth.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.