Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Flean Beg, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Flean Beg
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.55384, -9.22319
- SMR number
- LI018-039----
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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
On slight rise, in undulating pasture. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled, and surrounding field boundaries removed. Site now evident as low broad rise (Wth c. 8m; H c. 0.15m) enclosing oval area (c. 30m N-S; c. 22m E-W).
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.