Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Callow, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Callow
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.57216, -8.91855
- SMR number
- LI020-068----
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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 E-facing slope, in area of outcropping limestone. Roughly circular area (diam. 28.5m) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank with external fosse (D 0.4m; Wth 1.6m) SE->NE; enclosing element truncated by dry-stone field wall NE->SE. Bank (int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.95m) is heavily masked by vegetation overgrowth SE->NW. Fosse, largely infilled with dumps of earth and stones, narrows along N arc. Interior, covered with trees and dense undergrowth, slopes very gently down to E. Field boundary runs tangentially to enclosure on W side. Removal of topsoil by mechanical digger has exposed a narrow stony band (Wth 2.5m) running along outer edge of fosse NW->NE.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.