Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Skagh, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skagh
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.53288, -8.71498
- SMR number
- LI021-097----
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 low-lying, wet pasture with restricted to moderate views, c. 22m S of townland boundary with Laskiltagh. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2001 and described as a slightly raised, roughly oval-shaped area (36m E-W; 32m N-S) defined by a low scarp (Wth 2.5m; H 0.5m) visible intermittently from SE-S-W-N-NE, defined by a field boundary from NE-E-SE. The interior is gently undulating, dry and clear of vegetation. According to local information, the monument was levelled in the 1960s. Monument is visible as a faint oval-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimagestaken 28/06/2018. Curving field boundary at E incorporates original enclosing feature of ringfort.
See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by ASI and Google Earth orthoimage.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 29 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.