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Ringfort - rath

Killeenavera, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Killeenavera, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Killeenavera
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1928)
Coordinates
52.56011, -8.39364
SMR number
LI024-034----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On a large hillock which has been quarried out in modern times, 250m NE of a townland boundary with Boherroe. Possible barrow (LI024-035----) lies 50m to NE. Killeenavera House stands 200m to ENE. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map as a circular-shaped platform (diam. 27m). Monument described by O’Dwyer (1964, 98), as a well preserved platform (diam. 87ft/26.5m; H 5ft/1.5m) defined by a fosse (Wth 6ft/1.8m) from S-W-N and which occupies a commanding position in the landscape. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as no surface remains visible. Levelled monument is not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 05/05/2002 where it has been incorporated into a modern disused quarry. Levelled monument is visible as a tree-planted area within a disused quarry on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.

See attached profile drawn by O’Dwyer in 1964 and Google Earth orthoimages taken 05/05/2002 and 28/06/2018.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 28 September 2020

References

O'Dwyer, M. 1958-61 A survey of the earthworks in Old Pallasgrean, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 8, 69-78, 111-15.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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