Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Carrigeen (coshma By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrigeen (coshma By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.52471, -8.74634
- SMR number
- LI030-015----
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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 450m S of the townland boundary with Ballynahown. The Early Christian monastery of Dysert Aenghusa with its round tower, church and graveyard (LI030-018001/4-) are located 400m to S. The site is not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map but is depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a circular-shaped platform defined by a scarped edge. The site is faintly visible on the OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12 and on the Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. The levelled earthwork (ext. dims. c. 34m N-S; 32m E-W) is visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018 where an external fosse (Wth. c. 4.5m) is visible as a cropmark. The site is not visible on the most recent Google earth orthoimage 14/02/2020. The site is likely to be a ringfort.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan
Date of upload: 28 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Round towerunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.