Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockea, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockea
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured (1840)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.59868, -8.56514
- SMR number
- LI013-113----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Situated in pasture on a gentle E-facing slope. Monument, depicted on the 1841 OS map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m), has been levelled and there was no evident trace of it when the site was inspected.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 31 May 2013
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.