Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cliff-edge fort
Kilteery, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilteery
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Doon - Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.59231, -9.21715
- SMR number
- LI009-001----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
At the top of a sheer cliff, on the S shoreline of the River Shannon estuary. The site is completely covered by a dense overgrowth of bushes and briars, but appears to be a level D-shaped area (c. 20m E-W; c. 6m N-S) defined by the straight cliff-edge to the N, and enclosed E->W by a fosse (D 0.6m; Wth 3m) with an external flat-topped bank (int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1.6m; Wth at top 6m), with a berm (Wth 4m) at the external base of the bank, beyond which is a steep scarped edge (H 3.1m; Wth 6m). At the base of the scarp the ground is waterlogged.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stone1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.