Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Summerville, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Summerville
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured 1923
- Coordinates
- 52.64615, -8.88075
- SMR number
- LI003-013----
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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
In pasture, atop ridge. Circular area (26.2m N-S; 24.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank WNW->E and defined E->WNW by scarped edge (H 1.85m; Wth 5.5m). Bank (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 1.35m), best preserved at NW, lowers at N (ext. H 0.15m). Scarp best preserved at ESE, lowers at S (H 0.25m). Dry-stone field wall runs tangentially to W arc, 5m outside it. Interior, under pasture, dips gently down towards centre.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.