Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Templemichael, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Templemichael
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.59734, -8.45111
- SMR number
- LI014-083----
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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 an E-facing slope in rolling pasture with good views to S and E. This monument is evident as a roughly circular area (36.5m N-S; 28.6m NW-SE) enclosed by an earthen bank (ext. H 2m; Wth 0.8m; int. H 0.5m), and from NW to NE by an external bank (ext. H 0.3m; Wth 1.45m; int. H 0.5m) with an intervening fosse (Wth 2.5-5m).
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 25 June 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.