Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Riddlestown, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Riddlestown
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1841)
- Coordinates
- 52.52928, -8.98749
- SMR number
- LI028-073----
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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 scrub, on S-facing slope just below top of hill. Site densely overgrown with briars making inspection difficult. Circular area (diam. c. 35m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank. Apart from a short section at S where the natural slope enhances the external bank height, the internal bank height is greater than the external height (int. H 0.85m; ext. H 0.25m) so that interior is lower than surrounding terrain. Interior crossed by ruinous drystone field boundary on N-S axis, c. 9m from E edge. Limestone outcrops in N half of interior.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.