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Ringfort - rath

Mountrussell, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Mountrussell, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Mountrussell
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Garrynphuca Fort, hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Garrynphuca Fort - Hachured/Indic.(1923)
Coordinates
52.33374, -8.56189
SMR number
LI055-032----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, on moderate N-facing slope, with excellent views from NW-E. Annotated ‘Garrynphuca Fort’ on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map where depicted as a raised D-shaped area defined by a scarp, intersected at SW by a lane running NW-SE. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised roughly circular-shaped area defined by a scarp, intersected at SW by a field boundary running N-S. Surveyed in 1999 and described as a raised sub-circular shaped area (dims. 26m N-S; 27.5m E-W) enclosed by a bank from S-W (Overall Wth 6m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 2.3m) reduced to a scarp (Wth 2.1m; H 2.35m) elsewhere. Site intersected from NE-SE by water channel running from hill to S. Interior level, dry and planted with mature conifers. Tree-covered monument visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages.

See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by ASI and Google Earth orthoimages

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 19 November 2021

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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