Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Castlegrey, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlegrey
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.61777, -8.85829
- SMR number
- LI011-078----
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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 rough pasture, on limestone crag, on break in W-facing slope.. Sub-circular area (39m N-S; 38m E-W) enclosed by stone bank (int. H 0.85m; ext. H 1.02m), best preserved S->NW. Dry-stone wall ((H 1.05m; Wth 0.8m) forming townland boundary runs along top of bank N->E. Gap (Wth 2.2m) in bank at ESE. Bank lowers (H 0.35m) SE->S. Uneven interior, covered with trees and bushes, slopes gently down to the E; near S verge 2 roughly parallel (c. 2.15m apart) lines of stones are singly set edge to edge on rough N-S axis for c. 4m.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.