Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Rineroe, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rineroe
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.57783, -8.75600
- SMR number
- LI021-015----
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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 gentle undulating pasture, 65m E of the townland boundary with Kilgobbin, enclosure (LI021-148----) lies 200m E. Depicted on the 1840 OS 6-inch sheet as a circular-shaped area (approx. overall diam. 42m) defined by a bank intersected by three post-1700 field boundaries at NNE, SSE and NW. Not indicated on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map, likely that the monument was levelled between these map dates. No surface remains visible. Site visited by Celie O’Rahilly during field survey in 1991 prior to the construction of the Limerick-Adare road and described as following; ‘There is a kink in the north-south running field boundary which may reflect the remains of this enclosure’ (O’Rahilly 1991). This curve in the field boundary is visible on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map and represents the outer enclosing element of the monument at SSE. Faint outline of levelled monument visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13. Outline of levelled monument visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 14/02/2020.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 16 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Pitunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.