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
- 52.56833, -8.91781
- SMR number
- LI020-069----
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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 rough pasture, atop hill, in area of outcropping limestone. Oval area (40m N-S; 32m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank NNE->NW, but bank truncated by dry-stone field wall NW->NNE. Bank (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.7m), best preserved along S arc, lowers along W side becoming scarp-like in places. Entrance (Wth 3.2m) at SE. Interior, covered with scrub vegetation and trees, has uneven surface particularly in NW quadrant. Low field wall (H 0.25m; Wth 0.6m) skirts around external base of bank NE->SE.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.