Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Kilbreedy (Kenry By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilbreedy (Kenry By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.59872, -8.85224
- SMR number
- LI011-120----
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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)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope, in area of outcropping limestone. Circular area (30m N-S; 29.2m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 1.3m; ext. H 0.32m), best preserved NW->NE. Bank truncated by dry-stone field wall NE->E. Gap in bank (Wth 4.9m) at W. Earth-and-stone bank (H 0.5m) abuts enclosing bank at WSW, then curves gently to the WNW for c. 11.8m before fading out. Uneven interior due to rock outcrops.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.