Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Pallasbeg, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pallasbeg
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.58869, -8.36844
- SMR number
- LI015-058----
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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 in poorly drained gently undulating pasture. Identified from an aerial photographs (Bruff Survey: Map 15, no 15; 4/3731) as a possible enclosure. The monument consists of a sub-oval area (17.5m E-W; 15.2m N-S) defined by a scarped edge (Wth 2.9-3.8m; H 0.5-0.9m) with an external fosse (Wth 1.4-2.9m) and a counter-scarp earthen bank (ext. H 0.1-0.4m; Wth 1.1-1.5m; int. H 0.2-0.3m). The external bank is more pronounced in the N. The interior slopes down from N to S. A shallow depression at E, just inside the scarp, may be the result of quarrying.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 23 October 2013
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 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.