Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Currahchase, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Currahchase
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.59404, -8.87892
- SMR number
- LI011-117----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In deciduous forestry on ridge of high ground. Circular area (23.8m N-S; 23.4m E-W) enclosed by stone bank (int. H 1.35m; ext. H 1.2m). Bank best preserved with near vertical inner face NNE->SSE; partial collapse of bank SSE->NNE with loose stone falling inwards. Mature deciduous trees in interior.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.