Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilbane, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilbane
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.65448, -8.56138
- SMR number
- LI005-037----
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 gently undulating SW-facing slope, on a small undeveloped greenfield area abutting School House Road and otherwise surrounded by housing. Depicted on the revised 1938 ed. OS 25-inch map as a circular-shaped area (approx. 43m NE-SW; 41m NW-SE). Monument described in 1996 as a flat-topped circular-shaped area (diam. 40m) defined by a scarp (H 1.15-1.6m) and a partially infilled outer fosse. There is suggestion of a couterscarp (Wth 10m) to N. Visible as a roughly circular-shaped monument on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and Google Earth orthoimage taken 19/11/2019.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 22 June 2020
Nearby in the register
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- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Flat cemeteryunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.