Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ruppulagh, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ruppulagh
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.33372, -8.40905
- SMR number
- LI057-021----
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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 pasture75m N of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Ballyshane. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular enclosure. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised sub-circular-shaped area (dims. c. 60m NE-SW; 55M NW-SE) defined by a scarp from NE-S-NW incorporated into a field boundary elsewhere with an external fosse from SW-NW. Intersected at NE and NW by field boundary running NE-SW. Visible as an oval-shaped area delimited by trees on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 10 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.