Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killeenavera, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeenavera
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.56243, -8.39844
- SMR number
- LI024-033----
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 generally level pasture 175m E of a townland boundary with Boherroe. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map as a suboval-shaped earthwork truncated by a farm track to S. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as a raised circular-shaped area (diam. 20m) defined by a scarp from SW-W-N-E-SSE best preserved (Wth 3.8m; H 0.9m) from SW-W-N-NE and levelled (Wth 1m; H 0.2m) from NE-E-SSE with possible entrance (overall Wth 6m; basal Wth 1.5m) at NW. Monument is truncated by a track (long-axis E-W) across the S-sector which is cut (D 1.6m) into the hillslope. The interior is level and grass covered. Monument is enclosed on all sides by field boundaries. According to local information it is known as a ‘moat’. Monument is enclosed in a small field and over-shadowed by field boundaries so it is not visible on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, or on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
See attached sketch plan and cross-section surveyed and drawn by the ASI in 2008 and Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 28 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.