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
- 52.56490, -9.11310
- SMR number
- LI019-085----
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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 steep SSE-facing hill slope. Circular area (28.9m N-S; 30.9m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank which has been straightened and incorporated into field boundary system WSW->WNW and NE->SE. Bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.55m; Wth ), masked by vegetation overgrowth, is best preserved SE->SSW. Break in bank at WSW (Wth 0.9m), and gap worn across bank by cattle at NNE. Interior, under rough pasture, slopes down to SSE.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.