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Cliff-edge fort

Kilteery, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cliff-edge fort, Kilteery, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 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)

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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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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