Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Greenane, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Greenane
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.59413, -8.44528
- SMR number
- LI014-084----
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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 a gentle NE-facing slope in flat, poorly-drained pasture, with good views in all directions. The monument is obscured by dense scrub vegetation but is evident as a roughly circular area (diam. 19m NW-SE) defined by a scarped edge (Wth 4.5m; H 1.5m) with an external fosse (Wth 6.2m) and an external counter-scarp bank (int. H 0.5-0.8m; Wth 1.5-3.7m; ext. H 0.3m) of earth-and-stone. The interior is uneven and slopes down from the centre in all directions. A sub-oval depression in the centre (4m NE-SW; 3.5m N-S; D 0.8m) is partially obscured by scrub.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 25 June 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.