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
- Indicated (1840)
- Coordinates
- 52.57674, -8.65060
- SMR number
- LI022-252----
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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 Kilpeacon Demesne, 130m NW of Kilpeacon House. Kilpeacon church and graveyard (LI022-018001-/002-) 230m to NE. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped tree-planted earthwork (diam. 35m). Not depicted as an antiquity on subsequent OSi maps. Levelled monument visible as a faint roughly circular-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017. No surface remains visible of levelled monument on Google Earth orthoimage taken 14/02/2020. Possible levelled ringfort reused as a landscape feature on the demesne lands of Kilpeacon House.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 28 August 2020
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.