Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Commons (shanid By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Commons (shanid By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.49488, -9.07735
- SMR number
- LI028-093----
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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, and immediately N of road. Circular area (31m N-S; 31m E-W) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks with intervening fosse (Wth 2.2m). Inner bank (int. H 0.55m; ext. H 3.3m) evident all round, highest internally (H 1.05m) at SW. Outer bank (int. H 1.65m; ext. H 1.7m) survives SW->SE. Entrance (Wth c. 5m), with causeway across fosse, at SE; cattle gap (Wth c. 2m) through both banks at NW. Level interior under pasture.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.