Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killeen (coshma By), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeen (coshma By)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.57337, -8.73567
- SMR number
- LI021-019----
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 pasture on slight S-facing slope, moderate views in all directions, to the immediate W of disused railway. No surface remains visible. Depicted on the 1840 OS 6-inch map as a large sub-circular shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 45m) and not marked on subsequent editions. No trace of monument on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-13 and Google Earth aerial imagery.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 15 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.