Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Garryellen, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garryellen
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.56005, -8.61141
- SMR number
- LI022-091----
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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
Enclosure described in 1942-3 as following; 'An earthen platform on the edge of which there was a bank. Outside this there was a fosse. The bank is very collapsed and the fosse is just barely visible. The entrance seems to have been on the west side where the fosse is causewayed. The overall diameter is 150' [m]. Situated in good low-land' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 229). Cropmark of levelled monument barely visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs, outline of monument clearly visible on earlier OSi aerial photographs.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 2 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
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- Field systemunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.