Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Glennameade, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glennameade
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.62621, -8.83942
- SMR number
- LI012-020----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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, at N end of ridge. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1841 OS 6-inch map, has been partially levelled. Now evident as D-shaped area (30.6m N-S; 21.7m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.95m) W->E. Bank grades to a scarped edge (H 1.2m; Wth 5.2m) NNW->NE. Interior, under pasture, slopes down gently to N.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
O’Rahilly, C. 1992 Preliminary archaeological investigation of lands at Glennameade, Co. Limerick. Unpublished report submitted to Limerick County Council.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.