Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Reens West, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Reens West
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.49709, -9.00391
- SMR number
- LI028-156----
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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 low-lying marshy pasture, at base of NE-facing slope, in field bordered by streams to NE and NW. Oval area (c. 35m NW-SE; c. 30m NE-SW) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.2m) with external waterlogged fosse (Wth 2.6m; D 0.35m). Gap (Wth 1.6m) in bank at SE. An old field drains open into fosse at ESE and W, and a more recent drain at NE joins fosse with nearby stream. Bank and interior densely overgrown with bushes; only a narrow band around edge of interior is accessible.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.