Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knocknagranshy, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocknagranshy
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.53703, -8.66180
- SMR number
- LI022-119----
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 level pasture immediately S of public road with good views in all directions. Surveyed by the ASI in 2000 and described as a raised circular shaped area (diam. 20m) defined by a scarped edge (H 1.4m) and an external fosse (Wth 3.4m; D 0.55m) with a modern entrance ramp (Wth 6m) at E. A horse-shoe shaped limekiln (9.4m N-S; 6.5m E-W) is visible built into the scarped edge at S. A field boundary intersects the monument at W. The interior is level and densely overgrown as visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by the ASI and Google earth orthoimage 28/06/2018
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 4 August 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.