Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Coolybrown, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolybrown
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.50832, -9.02041
- SMR number
- LI028-058----
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 pasture, on gentle SW-facing slope, immediately W of public road. Circular area (31.5m N-S; 31.5m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1m) best preserved SE->W, and generally covered by dense overgrowth. Break in bank (Wth 7.2m) at NW possibly resultant from removal of field boundary, indicated on 1923 OS 6-inch map abutting bank at this point. Section of bank (Wth 10.6m) at ENE, where site borders public road, has recently been removed. Interior is under pasture that has been poached by cattle; S half slopes down gently to S.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.