Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killacolla (shanid By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killacolla (shanid By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.57525, -9.22911
- SMR number
- LI018-010----
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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 hillside. Circular area (27.6m N-S; 26.7m E-W) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks with intervening fosse (Wth 3.3m). Inner bank (int. H 0.55m; ext. H 1.5m) forms complete circuit but external bank (int. H 0.75m; ext. H 1.6m) and fosse replaced/overlain by field boundary SSE->SW. Interior level and in pasture.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.