Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knocknabooly Middle, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocknabooly Middle
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.59033, -9.16574
- SMR number
- LI009-006----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (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
In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope. Circular area (22m N-S; 24m E-W) enclosed NNW->SSE by earthen bank (int. H 0.65m; ext. H 0.8m) with external fosse (D 0.3m; Wth 3.5m), and bounded SSE->NNW by field boundary. Bank is overgrown with briars and bushes, and fosse covered by rushes. Causeway entrance at E (Wth 3.4m). Interior slopes down gently to S and is poorly drained with stands of rushes.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Cliff-edge fortunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.