Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Kilgobbin, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilgobbin
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.57954, -8.76008
- SMR number
- LI021-014----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 lowlying level wet pasture with poor views in all directions. Surveyed by ASI in 2000 and described as consisting of a raised circular-shaped area (dims. 16m N-S; 17m E-W) defined by a scarp (Wth 6.60m; H 1.4m). Interior gently undulating and clear of undergrowth. Levelled monument (overall diam. 54m) visible today as a faint cropmark on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and Google Earth orthophoto taken 14/02/2020.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 16 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Pitunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.