Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Creeves (shanid By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Creeves (shanid By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.55740, -9.02854
- SMR number
- LI019-139----
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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 W-facing slope into river valley. Roughly circular area (diam. 27m) enclosed by two concentric banks with intervening fosse (Wth 3.2m), and external fosse (Wth 1.4m; D 0.3m) SE->NNW. Inner earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.65m; ext. H 1.5m) is covered by dense overgrowth. Outer earthen bank (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1.25), best preserved at W, is truncated by field wall NNE->SE. External fosse, littered with loose stone, widens at W (Wth 3.2m). Interior, heavily masked by vegetation overgrowth, slopes down towards centre. An earth-and-stone bank (H 0.6m) branches off from inner bank at SE and curls in towards centre for c. 13.5m before fading out. Entire site is surrounded by field boundary and most of the contained area is covered by overgrowth.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.