Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tullyleague, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tullyleague
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.52858, -9.30480
- SMR number
- LI017-037----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on N-facing slope. Sub-circular area (36m N-S; 32m E-W) enclosed by three concentric earthen banks with intervening fosses. Inner bank (int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.95m) clipped slightly by field boundary at N, but inner fosse (Wth 3m), middle bank (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.6m) and outer fosse (Wth 1.5m) all truncated by field boundary NW->E. Outer bank (int. H 0.95m; ext. H 0.4m) further truncated W->SE by same boundary. Corresponding break in banks and causeway over fosses at SSE (Wth c. 2.5m). Entire site is covered by dense overgrowth.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
- Earthwork1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.