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
- 52.55181, -9.20995
- SMR number
- LI018-048----
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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 low-lying area of mixed pasture and marshland. Circular area (35.2m N-S; 36m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.5m), with external fosse (D 0.6m; Wth 1.45m) N->W. Elsewhere fosse is overlain by field boundary. Enclosing element is overgrown with trees and bushes. Causeway, edged with stones, crosses fosse at ENE but there is no corresponding break in bank. Interior surface is under rough marshy pasture and slopes down towards centre.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.