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
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1840)
- Coordinates
- 52.50584, -9.01787
- SMR number
- LI028-186----
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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 flat pasture abutting the townland boundary with Coolybrown. Located 290m SE of a ringfort (LI028-058----). The site is depicted as a circular enclosure on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Not shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. The site is visible on the OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12 and on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Monument inspected by the ASI in 2007 and described as consisting of a roughly circular area (dims. 20m NE-SW; 18m NW-SE) defined by remains of levelled bank reduced to scarp (Wth 4.5m; H 0.4m) and shallow fosse (basal Wth 1m; overall Wth 7.5m; D 0.15m) truncated by a stream and field boundary from N-NE. Interior level and incorporated into rest of field as pasture. Sinuous gullies around exterior of monument caused by overflow from stream. A series of relic field enclosures (ext. dims. c. 27m N-S; 34m E-W) abut the SSE side of the enclosure and are visible on the aerial orthoimages. The monument is visible on the Google Earth orthoimage taken 29/03/2012 and 08/04/2015.
See attached ASI sketch plan, photographs and Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan
Date of upload: 24 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.