Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Shanid Lower, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shanid Lower
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.55515, -9.11946
- SMR number
- LI019-079----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In low-lying marshy pasture, near base of NNE-facing hill slope. Sub-circular area (23.2m N-S; 21.8m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank E->W and defined by scarped edge W->E. Bank (int. H 0.95m; ext. H 1.45m), heavily masked by vegetation overgrowth, lowers at SE (ext. H 0.75m). Scarp (H 1.25m; Wth 4m), best preserved NNW->E, becomes very low W->NNW (H 0.2m; Wth 2m). Break in bank (Wth 1.85m) at SE. Interior, covered with flag irises, slopes down gently to E.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.