Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilbane, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilbane
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.65944, -8.56837
- SMR number
- LI005-035----
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
On a gentle W-facing slope, now occupied by three house plots and abutting Golf Links Road and Castletroy Golf Course to E. Depicted on the revised 1938 ed. OS 25-inch map as a suboval-shaped area (approx. 60m NE-SW; 59m NW-SE). No longer visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 26/05/2004 and Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 22 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Cremation pitunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.