Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Greenhills, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Greenhills
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.59124, -8.63776
- SMR number
- LI013-084----
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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 the summit of a low ridge, in gently undulating pasture, with good views in all directions. The monument is depicted on the 1924 OS six-inch map as a sub-circular area (diam c. 30m E-W) enclosed by two banks and an intervening fosse. The enclosure is now obscured by dense scrub vegetation and much of it is inaccessible. It appears to be a sub-circular area defined by a scarped edge (H greater than 2m; Wth 6.2m) which is embellished at the top by a slight bank (Wth 0.8m; int. H 0.4m), and with an external fosse (Wth 1m) and an external bank (Wth 0.8m; int. H 1.1m) which has been partially incorporated into the surrounding field boundary system.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 25 April 2013
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.