Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Skehanagh (connello Lower By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skehanagh (connello Lower By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.49832, -9.02528
- SMR number
- LI028-109----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on gentle E-facing slope. Circular area (35m N-S; 34m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 2.15m), with external fosse (Wth 1.2m; D 0.75m) SSE->NNE. Gap (Wth 4m) in bank at E. Fosse is partially infilled with earth and stone along its N arc and generally used as a dump for rubbish. Field boundary runs along outer edge of fosse SSE->SW. Interior recently levelled and de-sodded by machine leaving surface of exposed earth. Some trees grow atop bank and along outer edge of fosse.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
See attached ASI aerial photographs 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.