Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilrodane, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilrodane
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.48413, -9.07328
- SMR number
- LI028-128----
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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 SE-facing slope. Circular area (26.5m N-S; 25.6m E-W) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks with an intervening fosse. Inner bank (int. H 1.05m; ext. H 1.15m) low internally along E arc and incorporated into field boundary system SSW->NNW. Fosse (Wth 1.4m) is deepest SSW->NNW but covered here by dense overgrowth. External bank (int. H 0.95m; ext. H 0.3m) evident NNW->SSW but overlain by field boundary SSW->NNW. Entrance (Wth 2.7m) through both banks at ESE. Interior, under pasture, slopes down gently towards centre.
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.