Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Deelish (shanid By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Deelish (shanid By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.57377, -9.05253
- SMR number
- LI019-034----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on gentle SE-facing slope, in area of outcropping limestone. Circular area (28m N-S; 29.4m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank, with external fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.65m) SSE->N. A dry-stone field wall runs along outer edge of fosse WSW->N. Bank (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.8m), best preserved SE->N, lowers slightly along NE arc. Entrance (Wth 4.4m) at ESE. Fosse best preserved SSE->WSW where covered with nettles. Interior, covered with bracken, slopes down gently to SE.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.