Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilpeacon, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilpeacon
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.57662, -8.63948
- SMR number
- LI022-024----
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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
Fort described in 1942-3 as following; 'This structure has been levelled flat and it is not now possible to say what it looked like. There is no trace of a fosse. The overall diameter seems to have been about 150' [46m]' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 244). Not visible today on Digital Globe aerial coverage.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 9 March 2020
References
O'Kelly, M.J. 1942-3 A survey of the antiquities in the barony of Small County, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 3, 75-97, 169-84, 222-46.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.