Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Graigeen, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Graigeen
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.54995, -8.95141
- SMR number
- LI020-057----
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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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on gentle SW-facing slope, in area of outcropping limestone. Circular area (diam. 35m) enclosed by broad flat-topped stone bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 0.9m; Wth top 7.15m). Bank best preserved E->S, narrows along NW arc (Wth 4.7m). Ground immediately outside enclosure W->NNW has been cleared by mechanical digger and boulders dumped atop and at external base of bank at NNE and also at SE. No evident break or entrance in enclosing bank. Farm passage passes c. 10m away on W side of enclosure on line of removed field boundary. Interior, covered with nettles, with mature sycamore tree at centre.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.