Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Beechmount Demesne, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Beechmount Demesne
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.52414, -8.91479
- SMR number
- LI029-036----
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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 parkland of Beechmount House, on SE-facing slope below brow of rise. Roughly circular area (30m N-S; 31m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.2m) S->WNW, and defined by scarped edge NNW->S. Scarp (H 1.45m; Wth 6m), best preserved NE->SE, fades out at NW where it meets higher ground. Interior, under pasture, slopes down to SE; a mature beech tree grows immediately S-of-centre.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
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