Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Ruppulagh, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ruppulagh
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.34473, -8.40052
- SMR number
- LI057-022----
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 pasture 190m W of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Ballintober. Not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a circular-shaped hollow (diam. c. 10m) enclosed by field boundary walls from SE-W-NE. Visible as a circular-shaped area overgrown with trees on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. May be the remains of a post-1700 quarry.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 10 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 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.