Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockbrack East, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockbrack East
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.68263, -8.48956
- SMR number
- LI006-021----
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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 gently sloping pasture 90m S of townland boundary with Drominboy Upper and 490m W of standing stone (LI006-084----) on the summit of Knocksentry Hill. The site is described from cartographic and aerial photographic evidence only. Depicted as a large circular-shaped enclosure on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. Shown as a large circular-shaped area (approx. int. diam. 65m) enclosed by a bank from NE-N-W-SW, reduced to a scarp from S-SE and levelled elsewhere with external fosse from NE-E. The present field entrance at SE may be the original entrance. OSi aerial photography suggests the faintest trace of a central enclosure (approx. diam. 25m) within the monument. Outline of tree-ringed monument clearly visible on Google Earth orthophotos taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan
Date of upload: 12 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Boundary stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.