Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killeenoghty, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeenoghty
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.54620, -8.68223
- SMR number
- LI022-147----
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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 pasture on a slight N-facing slope 95m S and 193m W of the townland boundary with Drumloughan South. Ecclesiastical enclosure (LI022-057003-) lies 430m to SW. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure. Shown as a small field and not as an antiquity on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map. Surveyed by the ASI in 2000 and described as a roughly circular-shaped area (20m E-W) defined by a bank mainly reduced to a scarp (Wth 6.1m; H 0.8m) from NW-N-E-ESE. The interior is level and clear of overgrowth. Field boundary intersects site from SW-W-NW. Known locally as a 'fort', the site was mostly levelled in the 1980’s with the interior levelled to compensate for slope. Levelled monument visible on the OSi orthophoto taken 2005-2012 and Digital Globe orthoimage 2011-2013. Faint trace of monument visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 2018 and 2020.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 14 August 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.