Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Derrybeg, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrybeg
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.61285, -8.63427
- SMR number
- LI013-043----
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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
Situated on a slight rise in low-lying, gently undulating pasture immediately S and E of two field boundaries. Sub-oval area (37m N-S; 30.8m E-W) enclosed by a bank. The bank (int. H 0.5m; Wth 0.9m; int. H 0.9m) is constructed of earth and stone and is poorly preserved on the outer edge due to erosion from scrub vegetation and cattle. To the W and SW the bank has been incorporated into a field boundary and is obscured by scrub. There is a gap at NE of the bank (Wth 4m); a gap at SE (Wth 8m), and another one at NW (Wth 4.5m). The interior, which slopes gently down to the S, is uneven, strewn with loose stones and covered in places with by nettles.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 27 March 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.