Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Islandea, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Islandea
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.57366, -8.80289
- SMR number
- LI021-118----
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 gently undulating pasture, 200m SE of the N21 road. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork (dims. c. 40m N-S; 37.5m E-W). Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2000 and described as an oval-shaped area (37m E-W; 27m N-S) which is slightly raised (H 1m) above the surrounding ground level. According to local information, the raised area was quarried in the past and was known as a sand pit. Monument is visible as a roughly oval-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 31 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.