Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathreagh Beg, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathreagh Beg
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.51794, -9.02495
- SMR number
- LI028-050----
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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 gentle NE-facing slope. Sub-circular area (22m N-S; 20m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank with an external fosse. Bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.05m) is eroded by cattle especially WSW->NNW, N->NE and at ESE. Large boulders have been dumped on top of bank especially along S arc. Fosse (Wth 1.5m; D 0.4m) evident all round though very shallow E->SE. Level interior is littered with lose stones; thorn bushes grow around perimeter which is otherwise under pasture.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.