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
- 52.51726, -8.91612
- SMR number
- LI029-038----
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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 gentle N-facing slope below top of ridge. Sub-circular area (19m N-S; 17m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank with external fosse (D 0.1m; Wth 1m). Bank (int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.45m), becomes scarp-like (H 0.55; Wth 2.1m) NW->SE; it has been pushed back to form linear edge S->SSW. Fosse best preserved ENE->S. Interior, under rough pasture, slopes down gently to E.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.