Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Leahys, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leahys
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.60472, -9.11494
- SMR number
- LI010-004----
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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
In pasture, on N-facing slope. Circular area (27.8m N-S) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.9m) with external fosse (Wth 1.5m; D 0.2m). Entire site is covered in dense undergrowth and trees, and access is only possible where cattle have made paths into enclosure on N and S sides. Internal profile of bank varies but is generally a low and gradual slope. Fosse barely perceptible on N and E sides and is truncated on E side by N-S field boundary.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.