Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tinnakilla, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tinnakilla
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.55379, -9.21900
- SMR number
- LI018-044----
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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. Monument, depicted as circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled except for arc of low wide earthen bank NNE->SE (H 0.5m; Wth 8m) and low gradual scarp SE->S (H 0.35m; Wth 8m). Elsewhere enclosing element has been levelled but field boundary, concentric with and slightly outside line of bank and scarp, curves to respect site.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.