Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killeany Beg, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeany Beg
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.55433, -9.23494
- SMR number
- LI018-035----
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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 gently undulating pasture. Oval area (21.5m N-S; 24m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.65m), with external fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.35m) SE->NNE, and low broad counterscarp bank at SW and SE (H 0.15m; Wth 3m). Interior slopes down gently towards centre and is under pasture.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 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.