Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Pallas (Kenry By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pallas (Kenry By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.64954, -8.86294
- SMR number
- LI003-020----
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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)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on low rise in undulating terrain. Circular area (29.3m N-S) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.65m; ext. H 2.8m), best preserved along W arc. Bank is incorporated into E-W field boundary NNE->NNW. Entrance (Wth 2.5m) at SSE is now blocked with loose stones. Interior, covered with briars, has mature deciduous trees growing around verge. A trench (Wth 1.35m; D 0.45m) in SW quadrant extends for 5m on E-W axis.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 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.