Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ardaneer, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardaneer
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1841)
- Coordinates
- 52.59739, -9.08808
- SMR number
- LI010-011----
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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
Atop low rise, in undulating rocky pasture. Circular area (29.4m N-S; 27.8m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.65m; ext. H 0.7m) that is truncated NW->NE by E-W field boundary and is very indistinct SSE->SSW. Interior level and covered by tall grass; two areas have been surface quarried for limestone: to E of centre (6m N-S; 4m E-W; max. D 0.5m); to W of centre (4m N-S; 3m E-W; max. D 0.3m).
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.